Annual Snapshot

Medical Clinics

4,400+

individual patients were provided basic medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and counseling services in our clinics.

Health Awareness

400+

individuals were trained in basic health education and nutrition through our health awareness programs in areas where hospitals and clinics are unavailable.

Birth Life Saving Skills

1,700+

individuals were trained in BLiSS, a community-based health education program focused on pregnancy, birth, and new-born care in order to significantly reduce rates of maternal and infant mortality where medical care is unavailable.

Addiction Recovery

33

men were served in our New Life addiction recovery center through exercise, counseling, and vocational skills training, and 6 of these men graduated from the program in 2023.

Relief in Afghanistan

103K+

individuals received relief from Morning Star Development. Relief support has included food, medicine, shelter, hygiene supplies, etc, for some of the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan.

Earthquake Relief

25.5K+

survivors received hot meals in an emergency response to the Herat Earthquakes that devastated the region in October, as part of our total relief in Afghanistan in 2023.

– Herat, October 2023 –

Earthquake Relief

“It was 11:10am when our house began to shake uncontrollably. We have experienced earthquakes in our region of Afghanistan, but nothing like this. After discovering our immediate family and home were okay, we heard that the epicenter was just 20 miles outside our city.

I lead a team from Morning Star. Our team began to make a plan and gather supplies to work in the villages where our staff had been running programs for years. When our team arrived early the next morning with vans full of food, we saw whole villages completely destroyed.

Thousands of people were killed in the earthquakes and 90% of them were women and children in their homes. The rescue workers were trying to remove the rubble from the bodies. Our team went to the survivors and provided food, water, shelter, sanitary supplies, and trauma care.”

– Story from MSDev staff member Fareed *name changed for privacy

Afghan Secondary School, India

42

displaced Afghans in India were provided holistic education at a GED level, and 15 of those graduated from our secondary school in 2023.

Relief For Displaced Afghans

600+

individual Afghans who had been displaced to neighboring countries received relief and many of these participated in a youth soccer program.

Afghan Resettlement Training

400+

individuals and organizations in the U.S. were equipped, mobilized, and networked to engage and serve displaced Afghans in culturally sensitive and relevant ways.