Organization for Human Relief (OHR) is a women-led voluntary, non-profit, independent organization locally emerged and registered in 2013 as an active agent for serving the communities and individuals through the supplemented support of advocacy, gender equality, rights awareness, ensuring human & women rights, capacity building and women empowerment. The inspiration behind the establishment of the organization is to avail a multi sector opportunities for local communities with focus on women through improvement, planning, management and coordination and play a vital role in advocacy for problems solving of vulnerable people, providing humanitarian assistance to victims and affected communities and women as well as capacity building of local organizations, women rights activists and other potentials based on participatory and indigenous approaches.
To promote and protect the people and well-beings of communities through principles of sustainable development – the development that is economically sound, gender responsible and socially equitable.
To mobilize support for durable partnerships through actions to serve and respond the communities’ basic needs and priority issues with participation of women, gender, disabilities, youth, valued stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries.
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- Our tools are: humanitarian response, information exchange, development, capacity building and advocacy and awareness rising through media and face to face interventions.
- Our outcomes are: humanitarian & development actions based on ground analysis, assessments of community problems and to build the capacity of people/civil society and timely reporting of the actual situation.
- Our audiences are: communities, ethnic groups, youth, women, children, people with disabilities, government and civil society.
- Our style is: to increase our influence by working collaboratively with communities and other stakeholders– building long term strategic steps, while retaining the organizational ability necessary to confront the challenges that communities are faced with.
Goal/ Overall Objectives:
The core objectives of the organization are:
- To ensure that human rights of all persons are secured in their enjoyment of their goods and freedoms that are necessary in dignified living.
- To strengthen and empower gender role, secure women rights and work out for cultural & traditional barriers and other forms of discrimination against girls and women.
- To work nationally for citizens’ civil rights & improve the social sector for cohesion and peace.
- To respond to issues and problems of poor, vulnerable, disable, women and deprived segment of society through capacity building, awareness, advocacy and multiple approaches.
- To plan for and respond to the humanitarian and protection needs arising from disasters; armed conflict, naturally affected, particularly the displaced, those without access to basic and humanitarian assistance, and populations where there is no or limited humanitarian access.
- To promote income generating activities i.e. vocational skills for women to become self-sufficient and reduce their level of poverty living.
- To design and implement anti-corruption and transparency initiatives in communities for promoting accountability and improving quality of service delivery.
- To save the suffering communities through sustainable and long term participatory approaches for alleviating poverty in Afghanistan.
- Guide staff behavior, as well as strategic and operational decisions.
- Provide a solid foundation for employment policies, and “fill the gaps” where policies are silent.
- Over time, improve the organization’s ethical character as expressed in its operations and culture.
- Demonstrate integrity and accountability to external stakeholders.
- Reduce risk of inappropriate behavior.
- Transparency, efficiency, effectiveness and orientation on results.
Registration details:
- Registration Authority: Ministry of Economy
- Registration Number: 3033
- Year of Registration: 2013
- Year of Establishment: 2012
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TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE CHANGE!
Volunteers at OHR bring their skills, experience, social activism and enthusiasm to a broad range of tasks supporting the organizational mission. If you have some time and are looking for a way to get involved in serving the vulnerable communities, let us know:
OFFICE ADDRESS:
Jalalabad Office: House # 12, Street # 01, Shahi Canal A, Arbapan Road, Zone # 3, Jalalabad, Nangarhar
Asadabad Office: Near Fatima Girls’ High School, Dam Kalay, Asadabad, Kunar
Contact #: +93774892403