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Mental Health Day 2018 The International Assistance Mission celebrates World Mental Health Day every year by holding different activities to raise public awareness about mental health in the community. On […]

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The Basics of our Peacebuilding Project Our Peacebuilding Project partners with schools, organisations, and media to help build up conflict resolution and peacebuilding skills. Want to know what that looks […]

A Training of Trainers An important aspect of our development work in the Central Highlands is our Birth and Life Saving Skills (BLiSS) course, which uses participatory adult education techniques […]

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A Posture of Learning Through Our Training Programmes IAM’s National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation (NOOR) is known throughout Afghanistan for providing high-quality eye care to Afghans. We provide service delivery […]

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You’ve likely heard of our Community Development Progamme (CDP) before, and know that we are passionate about sustainable development. Perhaps you even know that our CDP is multifaceted and holistic–but […]

Linguists in IAM Over the years, IAM has often had the privilege of having some trained linguists on our team; these people have done important work on literacy development and […]

Our English project, the Silk Road English Centre, is well known for its quality teaching and fantastic results. But what is it that sets us apart, and how does it […]

World Sight Day 2018

Celebrating World Sight Day On October 11, our NOOR Eye Care Programme took part in celebrating the 2018 World Sight Day. World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness […]

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Another Story from our Peace is Happiness Lessons Fatima is a student in the HemeFund Literacy Classes, and she is also learning to tailor. In addition, she is studying Peace […]

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Avastin Injections: Doctors Trained in New Techniques Our NOOR Eye Care facilities are busy places–just last year, we distributed 25,988 pairs of glasses, saw 199,877 patients, and performed 10,566 surgeries. […]