2010 Annual Report - This is Hagar

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Afghanistan
Achieving the Unbelievable • 47 women and children found safe refuge, medical care, counseling, education and vocational training through
Stories like Shukria’s are far too common in Afghanistan.
It is a country bursting at the seams with the toughest of
human conditions and where family honour and shame
pose significant challenges to recovery and reintegration.
For Hagar Afghanistan, 2010 was about finding creative
solutions for some of these particularly difficult
circumstances.
It was a year of stubborn tenacity. It had to be. Because
that’s what it takes to persuade light from dark places.
Highlights
Hagar.
• Hagar captured the attention of the Afghan community when it launched the Trafficking in Persons Capacity Building
Program (TIPCAP). Bringing together government, United Nations and non-governmental actors, the historic
coalition addressed the issue of trafficking and minimum standards of care, protection and prosecution in the
country.
• From the TIPCAP coalition, the first working group of its kind formed to investigate the needs of children with
disabilities in Afghanistan and to establish group homes and family care centres in the future.
• Hagar Afghanistan staff rescued a newborn baby from certain death when they accepted her into the shelter.
Conceived through rape, Baby Hagar was born in the back of a taxi to her 13 year old mother and abandoned
immediately out of fear. Working through the Child Protection Action Network, Hagar staff supported and facilitated
the first Legal Adoption in the country, ensuring Baby Hagar will live a life of hope and dignity with loving parents.
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TIPCAP Program
Government and police
NGO Workers
Shelter Program
Separated from family
Rejected by family
Extremely poor
Living/Working on streets
Deported
Trafficked
Domestic violence
Total : 16 women | 26 boys | 9 girls
persons
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