Protection & Nutrition / COVID-19 Response

Location: Balkh, Parwan Total Beneficiaries: 194,860 Main Activities: Providing awareness session to women and girls about COVID-19. Capacity building of women and girls through different platforms in the targeted provinces, providing awareness sessions to women and girls in nutrition. Distribution of dignity kits for vulnerable families. Goals: Providing support for Women, adolescent girls and children in Balkh & Parwan provinces and increasing access to health and nutrition services, SBC awareness with referrals, skills building, and livelihood. Key achievements: In this project over 70,944 males and 123,916 females, benefited from the program. Within the project AWEC was able to establish strong collaboration and communication channels among team members and beneficiaries. Besides that, AWEC was able to provide a number of dignity kits, information on health and reproductive health, free screenings and checkups by female doctors, medicine, yoga sessions, and PSS counseling, and literacy courses. Which have allowed women and girls to create networks, make connections, and form friendships with other women and girls within the center. Previously, due to the poor conduct of health workers, families refrained from allowing their female family members to receive treatment. However, through our effective awareness-raising sessions for community members, social behavior changes, and comprehensive training on case management and PSS, we have brought about a positive change in the mindset of both parties.