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Saving Lives – One Mother And One Baby At A Time

August 15, 2019 by msdev2019

Women being trained in Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS)

In Herat, Afghanistan, there are 100,000 Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), who have moved to the camps outside the city from all over the country of Afghanistan. They come here because of the insecurity of their own town or because of the drought in their region. They are refugees within their own country. These families have left everything in the hopes of basic survival. The needs of pregnant women are especially acute in these areas as they hope to not lose yet another baby.

This year, Morning Star has been sending a team of four trainers into these make-shift camps to teach Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS) to men and women. Families continue to bear children in these camps and have a less successful birthrate than those who live in the villages.

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From Addiction To Opportunity

July 9, 2019 by msdev2019

Photo contrasting addiction to hope of a new life

Afghanistan supplies 90% of the world’s heroin inventory through opium poppy production and is also the world’s leading producer of hashish.

There is more land cultivated for opium than the coco harvest in Latin America. As a result, 10% of the overall population in Afghanistan has an addiction to illicit drugs. They are cheap and there is not enough government resources to stop this tsunami of drugs.

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Impacting One Life At A Time Through Education

May 28, 2019 by msdev2019

Afghan girls learning at Tangi Saidan Community Center

Morning Star’s Tangi Saidan Community Center (TSCC) in Kabul, Afghanistan offers classes in Literacy, English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Computer, Internet, etc. Out of the 16,000 people living in this community, only a small percentage of school-aged children are educated. At TSCC, 200 students per month attend the educational programs offered. Through these classes, student’s lives are being radically transformed. Darya, a former student of TSCC, is just one example.

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Hope Family Medicine Afghanistan

May 2, 2019 by msdev2019

Transforming the Medical Infrastructure of a Nation

Afghanistan still has one of the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

Morning Star Development is striving to change this reality through programs like Hope Family Medicine Afghanistan (HFMA), a three-year residency program to train local Afghan doctors. These doctors are being trained to give modern, scientific primary care in a context where strong ethical values are modeled by Afghan and expat teachers.

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How Do Stories Impact Leadership?

April 2, 2019 by msdev2019

March 21 was the start of the Afghanistan New Year and was also when we started the Institute for Leadership Development classes. Each year the number of applications increase, which gives us a bigger pool from which we can select the best and most open minded men and women in Afghanistan to train in Servant Leadership. One of the key parts of leadership development is for each student to tell his or her story. It is fairly rare that an Afghan professional be given the chance to safely tell their story publically. We train these men and women more effecively when we know their backgrounds, families, dreams, pain and suffering. As we get to know them personally, we help them to see that there is a reason for their lives, a purpose that is uniquely connected to who they are.

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