Crisis in Afghanistan - Action Needed Now

The people of Afghanistan are starving to death. Since the Taliban retook power in the summer of 2021, the humanitarian crisis has gone from bad, to worse, to a catastrophe. Some of OFWI’s team was able to see the devastation firsthand at a children’s hospital in Kabul.

The pictures below are shocking, but we must not turn away. There are actions we can take today to help the people being forced through this hardship caused by the Taliban.

Even in a children’s hospital in Kabul, they are dying from hunger and lack of even basic medication.

See the images for yourself, and read below what OFWI is doing to help and how you can join us to make a difference.

For years, OFWI has helped the people of Afghanistan in the face of extraordinary challenges.

Afghanistan faces a shortage of all of life’s essentials. As the Taliban continue to tighten their ruthless grip on power across the country, the people are being shut out of basic life necessities.

The United Nations has called the catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.

The footage we are seeing is horrific, and the need is great.

You can help ofwi take action

Your donations this Christmas season will fund critical work on the frontlines. OFWI’s Afghanistan program is engaged in three critical operations right now:

1. Rescuing religious and cultural minorities, including the small Christian community

2. Relief for women and children, refugee camps and in Afghanistan

3. Raising awareness and pressure on governments to act

Rescuing religious and Cultural minorities

OFWI is helping to rescue religious and cultural minorities whose lives are in immediate danger. Working with trusted partners on the ground, when possible we are helping religious and cultural minorities escape Afghanistan and get to a refugee camp in a neighbouring country.

This work provides are a lifeline for people whose lives are in immediate danger. Since the summer of 2021, we have helped 183 families escape to safety. Your support will help us strengthen the network for people to flee and find refuge to save their lives.

relief for refugees

Thousands of people forced to flee Afghanistan are now living in refugee camps in Pakistan near the Afghan border. Since winter 2022, OFWI has been food, life necessities, and medical supplies to help refugees in these camps survive.

We continue to make deliveries each month providing the necessities of life while these refugees await potential resettlement to safer lands or the ability to one day return home.

ACTION FOR AFGHANISTAN

Since the summer of 2021 when the Taliban returned, OFWI has been limited to delivering aid supplies to Pakistan and other neighbouring countries. This is due to the fact that the Taliban is a listed terrorist organization in Canadian law, and interacting with the Afghanistan government in any form would be considered illegally engaging with a terrorist organization.

While keeping pressure up on the Taliban itself is a good thing, a blanket law that prevents OFWI and other aid organizations from helping Afghan people by importing relief supplies only serves to make the suffering of innocent Afghan people even worse.

One Free World International is calling on the Canadian government and Parliament to amend its laws to allow aid organizations to carry out its life-saving work in Afghanistan. Without these legal reforms, the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan will continue to get worse. While we in no way support the Taliban and the sheer evil they are spreading, preventing OFWI and other organizations from helping even in small ways by delivering aid on the ground will cost more innocent people their lives.