Operating six orphanages in Pakistan with help from the Afghan Women's Mission, RAWA is nurturing and caring for 341 Afghan refugee children. Orphanage staff members try their best to make the orphanage environment like home, even arranging holiday and birthday parties for the children. Girls and boys attend classes from first grade through high school -- at either the more expensive Pakistani schools or at RAWA schools in or near the orphanage.
Though there is now hope that the country can change for the better, many Afghans have lived through years of war and need help to rebuild their lives. Only a lack of funds keeps RAWA from accepting more children in their orphanages -- there are many thousands of suffering children who need care.
