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In a country torn by decades of war, over one million Afghan women are easing their suffering through the use of opium and heroin. Children will often become addicted to these harmful drugs through their parents. New Life Women’s Center is a one-year drug rehabilitation program that seeks to redeem women from their destructive lifestyles and empower them by teaching skills and knowledge so they can be restored to their families and society.
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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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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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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“I am not alive, but I am not dead,” whispered Khadija. Khadija, a 23-year old Afghan woman, set herself on fire after losing all hope, due to an abusive arranged marriage. She was “sold” as a young 15 year old girl for $3,400, to support her impoverished family.
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