2023-06-15
A hundred projects to rebuild and improve sidewalks, roads and parks in Herat city are providing hope, and jobs, to local residents.
2023-06-13
'I lock the door on my children at home every morning and leave them in God's hands and beg for money on the streets of Mazar-e-Sharif until evening to feed them,' one female beggar said.
2023-06-12
Two large projects aim to improve the efficiency of irrigation systems, protecting farmland from floods and allowing farmers to grow more crops.
2023-06-08
The Food and Agriculture Organisation gave 500 farmers a variety of agricultural tools one day, while another group of hundreds of farmers received fertiliser and seeds the next day.
2023-06-07
Farmers are glad to cultivate something both legal and profitable and to shed the hardship and immorality of poppy cultivation.
2023-06-02
Eighty families will each receive beekeeping equipment that includes a bee box, honey extraction machine, 25kg of sugar, a beekeeping suit and some medicines for bees.
2023-05-31
The FAO's two-year initiative, which pays individuals for working on canals and roads, is helping thousands of unemployed breadwinners in Badghis.
2023-05-26
Farmers in Helmand province, once the country's top producer of opium, are moving away from poppies to plant alternative crops.
2023-05-18
A total of 550 children are now enrolled in schools or in vocational training centres to prevent them from the dangers of working on the street.
2023-05-15
The alternative livelihood programme is helping farmers grow vegetables instead of poppies, and the income they are now earning eclipses the amounts they received selling the illicit crop.
