When mountains crumble, women stand strong

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Last year's landslide destroyed several houses in the village.

During the season when most disasters happen in Tajikistan, many men are abroad, leaving women to take action themselves. 40-year old Gulya points away from her house and past the harvest of apricots that are drying on the hard stone ground in the backyard. This is the escape route for her and her children if another mudslide hits the village of Puthrin.
 
By Barbara James, Mission East's Country Director in Tajikistan 
 

 


New project will benefit farmers and people with disabilities in Tajikistan

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This February, Mission East started a new project, the main objective of which is to improve life for poor villagers in Tajikistan. 38,000 people will benefit from the help that includes agricultural training and support to women’s enterprise.

The purpose of the project in Tajikistan is to make the villagers self sufficient by growing their own food or through other forms of livelihood which bring in enough income to cover the basics of life, including food,clothes, medicine and schooling.

 


Preparedness is a coping strategy

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By Andrew McEwan, Mission East volunteer

On a snowy morning in Kulyob, a young man is throwing a coiled rope across the yard of the Committee of Emergency Situations (CoES). With great promise, it travels five meters in the direction of the opposite ‘river bank’ before becoming tangled and jerking short of its destination. The man gives the rope a bemused look and begins re-coiling it. By the look on the instructor’s face, this is not unexpected. He gives a smile and a nod and shows the group how to coil a rope properly, so it will unwind neatly in mid-air.

 


Ten years in Tajikistan

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Emergency help reaches Tadjikistan

From emergency food aid to long-term development. This autumn Mission East has been in Tajikistan for ten years.
 

 


Ten years in Tajikistan

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Emergency food aid being delivered in Tajikistan

From emergency food aid to long-term development. This autumn Mission East has been in Tajikistan for ten years.

 


Mission East forms strategic partnership with Focus Humanitarian Assistancee

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Map being hung up on the wall of a house

Mission East and Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding forming a strategic partnership in disaster risk reduction activities in Tajikistan. The partnership will expand Mission East’s network considerably in Tajikistan and internationally.

 


Tajikistan – helping people help themselves

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During the Communist regime in the ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan everything was decided centrally. After the collapse of the Soviet regime and the civil war which followed, the country faces huge challenges of governance and of poverty. Mission East helps numerous communities to take development into their own hands. Peter Blum Samuelsen, Vice-Managing Director of Mission East has been to Tajikistan.
 


Disaster risk reduction in Tajikistan

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On 6th April 2006 Mission East signed an important contract with European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) for a new project in Tajikistan. The project involves disaster risk reduction in Tajikistan and is being carried out in partnership with the organisation Shelter For Life. It extends Mission East’s current disaster risk reduction activities (flood prevention and early warning systems) into the area of earthquake preparedness.