Afghanistan can be a dangerous place – even for Afghan national staff. Wahidullah Amani was nervous when he visited schools in a particularly insecure part of the country, but he was inspired by the courage of the schoolgirls he met.

It started as one small community based class, today the students enter a proper school buildning every morning. Kemyan school in Warsaj, Takhar is one of the lates schools bulit by SCA.

A brand new school buildning with six classrooms rises where most of the students previously got their education out in the open air.

”The building have many positive effects on the education, they work better in the classrooms and it is much easier for them to hear the teacher”, says Agha Mohammad Ashori, headmaster at the school.

13 June 2013 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) recently facilitated the transfer of close to a dozen youths arrested for various crimes, including for their association with anti-government forces, to a new juvenile centre in the south-eastern city of Gardez.

UNAMA’s Rule of Law Unit facilitated the transfer to the new, better-equipped Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre (JRC) from an old centre where the juveniles were previously lodged.

The humanitarian community is carefully analyzing security incidents against humanitarian personnel with a view to determining how their operations can be fully resumed.

In a follow-up to a December 2011 report, AAN revisits the ongoing negotiations between the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Taleban. The earlier report, ‘The Battle for Schools: The Taleban and State Education’, focused on the changing Taleban attitudes towards Afghanistan’s state schools, allowing for the opening of schools in some of the areas under their control, and the negotiations with the MoE.

(New York, 5 June 2013): OCHA Operations Director John Ging highlighted the serious consequences of humanitarian funding shortfalls following his weeklong mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan with the Emergency Directors of six UN agencies.

“We are very concerned that donor funding for humanitarian operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan is falling short at a critical moment of positive transition in the region,” said Mr. Ging, who briefed the media at UN headquarters today.

2.9 million Patients treated by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan in 2012

The future of Afghanistan is difficult to assess but there is precautious optimism.

When 2012 is summarized in the annual report of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, we can conclude that development cooperation efforts make a significant difference for a very vulnerable population. Among other activities, The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan provided medical care to more than 2.9 million patients in four provinces.

From January to mid-May, 10,875 cases were reported through the DEWS, equivalent to 73% of the 14,984 cases reported in all 2012. In the same period, 269 deaths were recorded.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

An estimated 1.5 million people in southern Pakistan are still highly vulnerable and require humanitarian assistance as they try and recover from the impact of the 2012 monsoon floods, according to humanitarian partners. The flood-affected people need livelihoods, shelter, health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene support.

Three consecutive years of flooding have only compounded the existing vulnerability of people living in hazard prone areas who are extremely poor and underdevelopment of their locations.