10 years in Afghanistan: A road paved with successes and challenges

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Afghan girl walking through a dry riverbed.

It was ten years ago this fall that Mission East started its operations in Afghanistan.
 
Thousands of Afghans have since received assistance, but conflict and natural disasters continue to make life difficult for large parts of the population.

 


Mission East displayed at a new exhibition

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Managing director at Mission East, Kim Hartzner, by the wall sheet.

Toejhusmuseet in Copenhagen, Denmark, has recently opened a new exhibition on the Danish presence in Afghanistan.

Mission East is displayed with the other Danish NGO’s who work in Afghanistan at a new exhibition on Toejhusmuseet.
 

 


Your one Euro is worth seven

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The wall protects the school from being flooded.

How can your money grow to seven times its value?
 
While you are reading this, a stone wall is being built in Afghanistan. Not far from the wall is a school where 1,100 Afghan girls and boys from three poor villages learn how to read and write, and where 24 teachers make a living to support their families.
 

 


Signing Of A Contract At The German Embassy In Copenhagen

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Young Afghan boys drink safe water thanks to water systems from Mission East.

Two weeks ago, Mission East and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs entered a second contract for assistance to the population in remote regions of north-eastern Afghanistan.

 


Beehive number 250

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Happy men in Afghnistan.

Mission East introduced the first beehive to the village of Pumbak in Afghanistan in 2006. Although some considerable initial training was required to introduce the basic skills and concepts of beekeeping - starting from the difference between bees, flies and mosquitoes - the project is now a great success. So far, these buzzing insects have provided 125 of the most vulnerable families (approximately 800 people in total) with a new opportunity to improve their lives. Satar and Naqsh, whose stories are told below, are just two of these people.
 

 


Mission East is sending team to Pakistan

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Mission East is sending a team to Pakistan in order to determine the specific emergency needs that we can address and to discuss with local communities how we can work together for early recovery response – especially in rebuilding and securing livelihoods for the future.
 

 


Cattle waste helps in the kitchen

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Noor Mohammad together with his son.

Noor Mohammad could not help laughing to himself when he heard that Mission East wanted to produce energy from cow dung.
 

 


Newly-formed cooperative helps beekeepers in Afghanistan

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Afghan beekeeper showing off hive

Excellent results with a beekeeping project in the Afghan province of Takhar encourages Mission East to take a step further to help its 50 apiculture beneficiaries create a business enterprise.