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Project Overview
Due to recent civil disturbances and war, hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals have been displaced in their country seeking refuge in neighboring cities and towns.

The overwhelming majority of these are children, 98 percent of whom have to work on the streets to make ends meet, an often dangerous task.

This project provides safe and secure means for these children to become economically independent.

Project Background
Due to continued conflicts in Kabul many people have been killed, disabled or displaced and resulting in a perceptible and profound effect on the city's children. Many children have lost their parents, have parents that are disabled, or belong to families that have been displaced. It is estimated that 70 percent of the street children are or will be orphans.

Being left with no where to turn to, many of these have ended up in the streets of major cities such as Kabul, doing menial work just to get by.

Project Objectives
• To improve the economic background of Afghan street working children in Kabul and prevent them doing futile work.
• To develop the sense of financial independence by providing technical/vocational training for the poor street working children.

Project Activities
Aschiana will open up a new center and the project will provide all the necessary start up assets.

The following activities will be undertaken:
• Identification of interested and deserving children to participate in the program
• Selection of street working children who have been deprived of education due to war, financial constraints and displacement factor
• Identification of suitable center
• Purchasing and installing of the supplies of equipment
• Undertaking of skills transfer initiatives
• Supervision, monitoring and reporting of activities and progress to donor and support agencies

Beneficiaries
2,475 children will receive a stipend per month for six months while they benefit from attendance of the center.