Facts about PARSA

  • PARSA has 81 national staff members and two full-time international consultants.
  • PARSA serves over 800 students in accelerated learning classes and early childhood development in 21 villages in the Paghman District.
  • Over 40 women participated in PARSA's program for widows in the Kabul suburb of Dashti-Barchi.
  • Over 300 poor women in the Hazarajat worked with PARSA's staff in job training and literacy.
  • Over 100 orphan children are in PARSA's intensive special needs program at the Allahoddin Orphanage. PARSA also established support for medical needs for all 400 Allahoddin orphans and took over 30 children to the doctor. PARSA clothed over 50 children and provided hygienic supplies and underclothes for all girls and launched an advocacy initiative with the Ministry of Social Affairs and the president’s office for better care of the orphans.
  • PARSA's physiotherapy clinic serves 200 patients a month, and in 2006, we trained physiotherapy assistants for Khost Province.
  • PARSA provided psychosocial training for kindergarten teachers for over 50 teachers for another international non-governmental organization, Church for World Service, in the Hazarajat.