- Afghan Friends Network, 68 Ramona Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94103 . (A group of Afghans and Americans working together on small-scale projects. Currently, they are training teachers and purchasing science supplies for schools in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.)
- IFDC P.O. Box 2040, Muscle Shoals, Alabama 35662 This 30-year-old non-profit works in the world’s poorest countries to promote sustainable agricultural productivity through environmentally sound technology. It’s a terrific outfit with many success stories to its credit, and it’s intensively active in Afghanistan.
- Afghans for Afghans P.O. Box 475843, San Francisco, CA. They started out sending woolen goods knit by Americans to Afghans. Now director Ann Rubin wants to help rural Afghan women develop a yarn making industry as a way to achieve some economic independence.
- Help the Afghan Children, 8603 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 230, Vienna, Virginia 22182. (Founded and operated by Afghans, active for many years, has proven itself with deeds. Check them out at www.HelpTheAfghanChildren.org)
- American Friends Service Committee, 65 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1401 (Maintains an office in Kabul to identify and fund worthy projects on the ground.)