Years of war have made the health-care system inside Afghanistan suffer substantially. It has one of the world's poorest health outlooks, with a life expectancy of only 46 years.

• According to World Health Organization, more than 65% of Afghans lack access to health facilities and only 32% of Afghan children are immunized against childhood diseases.
• One in six children die each year and 90% of the deaths are from communicable diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea, leishmaniasis, malaria, and measles.
• Mortality surveys show that 20%-40% of all deaths among children under the age of five are due to diarrhea diseases, which serve as a major cause of malnutrition among Afghan children. Malnutrition leads to a greater increase in child mortality and morbidity by lowering the immune system of children which makes them more susceptible to disease. Leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite and transmitted by the sandfly, can cause disfiguring and disabling skin disease. It has already affected more than 100,000 people in Kabul this year.
• The maternal mortality rate is the second highest the world. Fifty-three women a day die from pregnancy related complications, which amounts to 17,000 women per year. Over 90% of Afghan women deliver babies at home and most without the support of health care workers such as midwives.

Years of internal conflict and lack of mental health facilities has brought about a mental health crisis inside Afghanistan. The World Heath Organization has estimated that over 40% of the Afghan population is suffering of some kind of mental health problems.
The current health care crisis inside Afghanistan is mainly due to lack of appropriate health care system and health care workers, especially in rural areas of Afghanistan.

As we are a community based council, we will address the immediate, intermediate and long-term health care needs of the afghan people. With the help of our partner we will set up community centers in rural areas of Afghanistan.The proposed health care centers will have different areas:

• an immunization clinic
• a maternity clin
• a mental health clinic
• primary care
• rehabilitation clinic

Our highly qualified staff will provide medical training to upgrade the knowledge and skills of health care workers in local communities through comprehensive programs that will focus on immunization, nutritional care, proper sanitation techniques, re-hydration methods, sterilization techniques and midwifery. Our goal is that the new graduates of our clinics will not only help in providing adequate health care to others but that they can also serve as teachers for the other new community centers.
Rehabilitation clinics should not only focus on providing physical support but should also focus on the mental and economic aspects of patients. We should focus on programs that find jobs for those that are handicapped.

• Agriculture
• Commerce
• Education
• Finance
• Health Care
• Human Services
• Infrastructure

• Herat Province
• Wardak Province
• Parwan Province