AWSDC is a women’s rights organization that strives to eliminate violence against women and their families by providing safe refuge, legal services, counselling and advocacy in
A society where Women are no longer subjected to violence, live in dignity and are able to participate in all aspects of life
People-Centered: We are committed to promoting active participation of our staff and our beneficiaries in peace and development, through improving their capacities.
• Equity and Social Justice: We respect human diversity and work to ensure everyone is treated with respect and dignity, without discrimination on any grounds, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, political or tribal affiliation.
• Integrity: We uphold our vision and values at all times, acting with integrity, accountability and transparency and look with great interest in:
– Empowerment of women
– Educating children and Youths, who are deprived due to varies circumstances
– Fighting violence & exploitation of the vulnerable groups including street children
– Ensuring rights of persons living with disabilities
– Avoiding discrimination
– Promoting children rights
– Providing emergencies responses
– Advocating for Human Rights
– And prompting social cohesion at community level.
Our Organizational Approaches
We take a right-based approach that is based on the context and needs/priorities of the target beneficiaries. We are committed to perusing the following Standards:
1. Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), which focuses on accountability to right-holders, host communities, partners and stakeholders.
2. We are committed to respect and implement organizational a humanitarian Code of Conducts;
3. We do understand and respect Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief (1994);
4. We are strongly supporting Afghanistan NGO’s Code of Conduct;
5. We are committed to respect and thus implement the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, (the Sphere Project);
6. In our programming, we do implement the IASC Gender Handbook and Gender Marker
7. We are supporting the ‘Do No Harm’ framework
