I wrote to you in March about the emergency women’s shelter that the Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA) has been running for 13 years. With your help we were able to keep the shelter open and source some new temporary funding.

However, we are back at crisis point. For safety reasons, we have been forced to unexpectedly move the shelter, which means we have yet another urgent shortage of funds. We are now busy getting another building ready for women and girls like Zarmina, who was only 2 years old when her mother sold her off to a 22-year-old Taliban member. She came to us deeply traumatized and if she is forced to return to her village, she will be stoned to death.

Your donation will give us the lifeline we need to finish getting the new shelter ready and to keep it open.

Thank you for anything you can do to help us.

Yours sincerely,