Category Archives: AWM News

Afghan Women’s Mission is proud to sponsor an art exhibit highlighting the devastating impact of the Afghanistan war on civilians. Windows and Mirrors is a collaboration of more than 40 artists from around the world, including U.S. students. Forty-five, 4-foot by 6-foot panels, each uniquely designed by an artist or group of artists, comprise one large display memorializing Afghan civilian casualties. The exhibit also includes images collected from Afghan high school students by Dr. Zahir Wahab, a professor at Lewis and Clark College who asked young Afghans to draw images from their daily reality. Continue reading →

After a long-overdue renovation, our website is now ready! We moved to a new server and rebuilt our pages from scratch. Our goal is to make it easier than ever to find out about the work of RAWA and how you can help them. Making a donation online is faster and easier, and has some new options (we now accept PayPal, Discover Card, and electronic check).

We hope you’ll find the site easier to navigate. If you have any questions or comments on our new look, please contact us and let us know what you think!

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You may have noticed minimal activity on this website for the past several months. That’s because we’re upgrading our website!

In late November, AWM will unveil a brand new website with all of the history of this current website, but much more navigable and easy to access. Most importantly, we’re working on making our donation methods more streamlined and reliable. Thank you for your patience! Continue reading →

If you missed our Fair Trade and Conscious Gifts Holiday Bazaar last weekend because of the heavy rains, not to worry – you still have the chance to purchase our one-of-a-kind hand-made items from Afghanistan this Saturday at the Antimall!

WHAT: 8th Annual Antimall
WHEN: Saturday December 19th, 12 noon – 7 pm
WHERE: 3400 N. Figueroa Street. Cypress Park, CA 90065

Antimall is an annual alternative holiday market and festival. This year the event will be outdoors, with an entire street blocked off and filled with vendors. Look for the AWM table! We will be offering our purses (large and small), wallets, pillow covers, table cloths, wall hangings, jewelry, T-shirts, books, and DVDs.

There will be live music, DJs, surprise guests, Food, Toy giveaways, and Free Coffee. This is a family-friendly event!

For more information, email elpuente52@yahoo.com.

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Tired of submerging your conscience every holiday season?

Worried you won won’t be able to afford gifts this year?

JOIN US for the 4th Annual Fair Trade and Conscious Gifts Holiday Bazaar!

WHEN: Saturday December 12th 2009, 11 am – 4 pm

WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA (Geneva Room – wheelchair accessible)

PARKING: Street parking near the church, church lot, or Athena Parking lot across Berendo.

Browse through a large selection of affordable, sweatshop-free arts and crafts made by artisans internationally and locally, including embroidered pillow-covers, wallets and purses from Afghanistan, locally made jewelry, blankets, scarves and tote-bags, soaps, candles, oils, conscious books, CDs, and much more!

Entrance is Free. Complementary tea, coffee and pastries.

All proceeds will directly benefit the artists and workers who made the items.

Buying gifts for your loved ones doesn’t have to violate your ethics or drain your bank account!
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Known as the “most famous woman in Afghanistan,” dissident parliamentarian Malalai Joya returns to the US, this time to share her new political memoir, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, co-written with Derrick O’Keefe.

Listen to Malalai Joya on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

“Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this inspiring memoir is that despite the horrors she relates, Malalai Joya leaves us with hope that the tormented people of Afghanistan can take their fate into their own hands if they are released from the grip of foreign powers, and that they can reconstruct a decent society from the wreckage left by decades of intervention and the merciless rule of the Taliban and the warlords who the invaders have imposed upon them. It is hard to find words to capture the incredible courage of this amazing young woman, and of the supporters who have gathered to protect her and carry on her work, particularly the many women ‘protesting with empty hands,’ evidence that ‘we are not only victims, and that women have the power to make changes in their lives and their country.’ She also shows how we can provide a helping hand — not with landmines, bullets, and bombs, but with ‘an invasion of hospitals, clinics and schools for boys and girls.’ Joya is raising an eloquent voice, and we owe to her, and to her people, to listen carefully, to learn, and to act.” – Noam Chomsky Continue reading →