It has been estimated that there are 28,000 children living in the streets of Kabul. This does not speak of the other cities or villages in Afghanistan or in Pakistan who also have their share of homeless children. It also does not include the children who are living with one or both parents, but whose parents are unable to feed or clothe them properly. It also does not represent the numbers of children put to work at a young age in order to help provide for the family and who thereby miss out on education. AWM and RAWA can address this problem through your generous financial support.
The expenses of an orphanage include; food, toiletries, books and stationary, clothes, shoes, bedding, health care, rugs, kitchen items, building rent and utility costs, purchase price of major appliances, salary for administrator, assistant, cook and guards. As an example of the frugality with which RAWA runs their orphanages, consider that the highest salary, that of administrator, is almost $60 per month or about $700 per year.
