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Mission EAST 4 4 Afghanistan – The road to prosperity Mission EAST 8 Our achievements in 2012 NO. 1 / SPRING 2013 FOCUS Aid to inaccessible corners of the world 2 Content 4-5 6-7 Afghanistan – 50 loaves of bread When Sayeed's husband died of malaria it became difficult for the family to make ends meet. The self-help group became Sayeed's helpline. 8-9 Afghanistan – A way forward What we achieved Before, the people from the remotest villages of the together in 2012 Takhar province were isolated from the outside world. Children who have been Now, they have constructed a road together with Mission found. Access to a better East, which gives them a wealth of new opportunities. health, water and organizatio- nal development. Read a selec- tion of what Mission East has 14 achieved in 2012, in collabora- Nepal – tion with supporters, partners Access to and local communities. clean water and toilet Now Lacchu Short news – Y’s Men's Clubs support children’s who is blind, 11 fetches water corners and reaches Mission East has established children's corners for parents and the toilet on her children with disabilities in Tajikistan. Now the Danish Y's Men's own. Clubs help by giving the children’s corners a brush up. Front page photo: Mission East Head Office in Hellerup, Denmark Board The road from the Tajik is a Danish international aid organisation. Managing Director Dr. Kim Hartzner Chairman Carsten Wredstrøm capital of Dushanbe to We exist to deliver relief and development Deputy Managing Director, CPH Peter Sigetty Bøje Karsten Bach the district headquarters assistance to vulnerable communities with a PR Manager Maria Callesen Brian Nielsen of Panjakent. The road primary focus on Eastern Europe and Asia. Office Manager Kathrin Thomsen (maternity leave) Benedikte Grenov is often inaccessible in Based on Christian values, Mission East aims to Student assistant Vibeke Førrisdal, René Hartzner winter due to avalanches. support the most vulnerable, making no racial, Communication Officer Anne Mette Nordfalk political or religious distinction between those Communication Officer Michael Schmidt. Editorial staff in need. Kim Hartzner Mission East currently operates directly or Mission East Office in Brussels, Belgium Anne Mette Nordfalk through local partners in Afghanistan, Armenia, Operations Director Peter Drummond Smith Maria Vibe Lynge Callesen Nepal, North Korea,Tajikistan, Pakistan, Romania Finance Director Marianne Le Floch and Bulgaria. Finance Manager and HR Nazik Avagyan Production The assistance offered by Mission East is sup- HR Joel De Vos Rosendahls, Esbjerg Mission Øst er medlem af: ported by a range of private and public donors Information Systems Support Richard Peppiette such as the Danish Ministry of Foreign Afffairs, Desk Officers Saskia de Smet, Alex Ramos Peña, ISSN 0908-2042 European Union and the United Nations. Kendrah Jespersen, Maryse Tanis and www.miseast.org Mission East has been verified compliant with Joohi Haleem. the People in Aid Code of Good Practice in the management and support of aid personnel. EDITORIAL 3 Access to a better life lack the knowledge of how to help themselves. Some of these people's poverty is linked to the fact that they live so remotely. Therefore, it is important to build roads, so that they can get to the doctor or the market. It is also important to provide clean water and sanitation in these areas, because it helps to improve living conditions and makes it possible for people to build a better life for themselves. With this edition of the Mission East magazine, we would like give you a sense of how inaccessible many of Since the founding of reach out to the forgotten. the people we help really are. Mission East, I have been To the children with The articles are about people, driven by a passion to reach disabilities, who are tucked who are far away in a variety people whom nobody else away at home, and to the of ways. But none are so far reaches. villages that are many days away that we cannot reach walk away. To the families them and show them that These are people, who have who are cut off for several they are not forgotten. been born under totally months during winter, and different circumstances than to countries that many myself and through no fault barely know the existence of their own suffer from of. To people who are hard Thank you for helping us poverty in remote parts of to access and to those who reach these people. the world. It is very characteristic for much of Mission East’s work, that we are present where very few or no other relief organizations work. I have a deep conviction that every Dr. Kim Hartzner, Managing Director human being has a unique value, and that is why we 4 AFGHANISTAN Villagers are now able to purchase seeds, medicines for their animals, fertilizer and other agricultural necessities far more easily than before. This enhances the ability to produce agricultural products, and thus increase food supplies. Farmers can now get to the market easily, and sell their vegetables, thereby increasing their incomes. The road to prosperity In the Takhar province in Afghanistan, Mission East has con- structed 110 km of gravel road, connecting villages in two of the area’s most inaccessible districts, with the province's capital, Taloqan. The villagers used to be hampered by their isolation but now they have gained access to new opportunities. Access to health facilities: Before, pregnant women who experienced problems during childbirth had to be taken by horse cart through hostile terrain. When this little boy was born he could not breathe properly, and he was quickly brought to the nearest health Facts centre by car. “He was lucky to get there in time”, says his Takhar province covers an area of 12,376 km2, Grandmother, Bibi Sherin, sitting which is a little larger than the islands of Funen, with her new born grandson Zealand and Lolland-Falster put together. outside the house. Mountains cover 58 percent of the province. It Now that the city is within is in this area that Mission East operates, and reach it is more likely that these which is now connected with Takhar provincial children will get an education capital, Taloqan. beyond the village school. 5 Access to new employment oppor- tunities: 27-year-old Abdul Ghiyas comes from a poor family, completely depen- dent on agriculture. After the road was built, he has become a driver, and with this new job he can now support his family. Access to markets: It used to take four What the villager and hours on foot, or three hours by Mission East have donkey to reach the achieved town. Now, it only takes 40 minutes Travel time has been reduced by car. by 80%. This time can now be used for more productive purposes. The road connects 140 isolated villages to the provincial capital. Access to customers: Many small shops 92,000 people may use the have flourished now road. that there is increased accessibility local The road has been built in markets. Sarwar close cooperation with local Khan, a 45-year-old authorities, and villagers from unskilled worker, vulnerable households were saw the need for a hired for the construction shop: “My former job was insecure and work. seasonal, and often I came home empty handed. With this shop I can support my family,” he says. In addition, small shops like this give villagers better access to food supplies. 6 AFGHANISTAN Self-help groups consist of about 20 women, who save up together and then borrow money from the common fund. This photo is from another self-help group than Sayeed’s. 7 Now, Sayeed bakes 50 loaves of bread a day When Sayeed’s husband died Later, Mission East received earn 300 Afghani a day, and of malaria, it became difficult permission to help the it's enough to cover our for her to feed herself and women in the village to needs, and to repay the loan. her six children as women's start self-help groups. The My life has changed. Now, access to the world outside group members learn how I no longer need to worry of their homes is extremely to save up money together, about how to make money to limited in rural Afghanistan. and take loans from the feed my children, and I can money collected. The poor also buy school supplies for Sayeed’s husband died of rarely have access to loans them. We lead a good life," malaria some years ago. from a bank, because they says Sayeed. The disease could have cannot provide security. been treated, but the Furthermore because there family didn’t have enough are no banks in the villages. money for treatment. Since Afghan women living in Sayeed made a plan the countryside have very After yet another training, little freedom of movement, this time in keeping Sayeed had to try to get work chickens, Sayeed was able to near her home. The fact that earn some money by selling she did not have any formal eggs. It gave her the courage education made it even to invest in a business that harder. So in the beginning, would get her, and her Self-help groups in the family had to survive from children, out of poverty. Afghanistan the little money she was able She borrowed 300 afghani, to make, doing housekeeping (approximately 6 USD) to Together with local Afghan for families in her village. buy flour and other baking women, Mission East has initiated 54 self-help materials, and started to bake groups. Each group consists Access to credit bread, which her son then of about 20 women and Due to her situation, Sayeed sold at the market.
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