Mental Health Course and Subsequent Treatment Proves Effective Ensuring that patients with mental health issues receive appropriate, quality treatment is incredibly important. One of the doctors who had participated in […]

A Community Development Success Story In her own words, Humaira tells her story and how CDP has helped her children’s education. I was born in 1957 in a poor family in Qezil […]

Synergy to Create One of our literacy students realized that she could use her tailoring skills and the classmates she had newly acquired to build up an embroidery business together. […]

The Importance of Learning to Read and Write On several occasions, different fathers of students in our classes said they never realized the importance of being able to read and […]

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Q. What characterises IAM? A. There are four things that characterise IAM: a) IAM takes a long term perspective (we were established in 1966), b) IAM is focused on innovation […]

When IAM started its work in 1966, the government requested us to focus on eye care. IAM has been heavily involved in the eye care sector right up to the […]

The International Assistance Mission (IAM) is Afghanistan’s longest continually serving non-profit charitable organisation. We aim to build capacity in the sectors of health and development. Local staff and international volunteers […]

The First BLiSS Course In the spring of 2008 CDP ran their first Birth and Life Saving Skills course (BLiSS course) for women. Using adult education techniques, groups of participants […]