Peace be upon you - السلام عليكم

Welcome to the journey through the beautiful and poetic country Afghanistan

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Mawlana ~ Rumi

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Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan,

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“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”

— Rumi

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among all the months,

ramadan is the spring of the heart

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Afghanistan, 1939. From Ella Maillart - Double Journey (2005)

The explorer and photographer Ella Maillart and the writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach set off from Geneva by car with Kafiristan as their destination.

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summer

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Two tiny figures pass in front of Sher-Dor Madrassa on Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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Afghanistan. Kim Landgraf: The photos of Afghanistan were taken by my father in the years 1968 to 1972 when he was living in Kabul with his young family.

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Pakistan, 1980s

Amir Hamza's archive

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Memoires de l’Afghanistan de Roland et Sabrina Michaud, Editions Le Chene, 1985

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“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.”

—   شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez

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Salam dearest salamalaikum community 🫀 Afghanistan is caught in the middle of a severe economic, healthcare, and humanitarian crisis. With 97% of its population facing poverty and hunger.

With your support, we are organizing a Winter Relief Appeal focused on supporting women and their loved ones in northern Afghanistan. 

Your donations will directly reach the most vulnerable groups: women, widows, and single-income households, people with disabilities and financially insecure families.

We plan to provide €100 per month to each identified family, helping them purchase essential items such as food, medicine, and warm clothing. These contributions will ease the struggles of families facing extreme hardship and offer them a glimmer of hope during these difficult times.

Your donations are handed over with love &care to the families in need, through our trusted network of local volunteers on the ground.

We ensure that your contribution is delivered directly to the families, with no involvement from the current regime. 

Thank you for your unwavering support - Dankeschön- سپاس 

With Love & Gratitude,
Felice Susan A. (Hope for Children)

- Here and on Instagram @hope_forchildren

I will update you on how your donation has made a difference 🤍