ECI Summer Newsletter 2023

In this newsletter, you will receive updates about the School Midterm Paper Distribution Event, Community-based Disability Awareness and Support Program Updates, School Playground Opening, Capacity Building Training Workshop, Home Aviculture Equipment for Behishta’s Family, and more.

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ECI Spring Newsletter 2023

In this newsletter, you will receive updates about ECI receiving Rehabilitation International's Centennial Award, graduation of students with intellectual disabilities, CBDASP progress in six provinces, Emergency Relief Fund for Fereshta, MGFF achievements, radio magazine programs, and more.

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The effectiveness of community and family-based approaches to disability awareness and support in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has one of the highest proportions of people with disability globally. At least one in five households contain an adult or child with a physical, sensory or psychosocial disability. More than one million Afghans also have amputated limbs, or experience mobility, visual or hearing disabilities. The prevalence of disability in Afghanistan is due to a myriad of problems caused by decades of conflict and instability. This includes buried land mines, and artillery shelling, disease, poor healthcare and acute poverty. 

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