Humanity is uppermost amongst our expanding community of mobile immunisation teams, volunteers and local health ambassadors.

Educating rural communities and changing anti-vaccination attitudes is a process that is built upon trust and respect. We are flexible and agile, listening closely to our beneficiaries and seeing their daily struggles through their eyes. This is the ethos upon which we build communication bridges to educate women and men about the importance of immunisation,  healthcare and education.

Our efforts go beyond the scope of healthcare: we try by all means to address their struggles in a holistic way, with a focus on education, employment, and nutrition.

Life in rural Afghanistan is extremely challenging; plagued by poverty and the lack of basic infrastructure and education, disrupted by armed conflict and a feeling of constant insecurity about the future.

Healthcare and education are still inaccessible for many women and young girls in rural Afghanistan.

The Maywand Foundation has made it a priority to include women as much as possible and to prevent human rights violations. We empower women to be financially independent and contribute to their communities as trusted health ambassadors and educators.

Our volunteers lead women-led support groups and networks that encourage dialogue and male accountability. We believe that Afghan women have a voice that should not be silenced or suppressed.

Community development is key to close the abyssal gap between urban and rural Afghanistan.

Through our community development projects, we empower people in villages to study, work, and ultimately lead their own development creating thriving, self-governing communities.

Our projects aim to build trusting and accountable relationships with the state actors that allow local councils freedom to define their community development priorities.

Our initiatives are ongoing and ever-expanding. We implement core infrastructure schemes in villages to improve sanitation, create jobs, promote renewable energy solutions, as well as bring education to children who live in geographically remote areas.

We provide integrated health services effectively across Afghanistan’s 34 provinces – our strength lies in being able to access and prioritise insecure, and hard to reach villages.