Negotiating at the Market
Hassina uses her superb negotiating skills, (well honed in the Denver media market,) to hammer out a mutually beneficial deal for this rice vendor and children at the hospital.
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School for the Deaf
On October 8th we visited the “School for the Deaf,” delivering 321 bags of rice for meals. These boys are learning sign language from a dedicated instructor, however at this instant it appears they’re more interested in the camera.
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October 15th, 2008 in
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Landscapes of Afghanistan
From our October 2008 journey – these are Kabul and the surrounding areas en route to the small outlying towns.
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Clear Channel Press Release 2008
Clear Channel Employee Honors Parents by Aiding Handicapped Children of Afghanistan
from Clear Channel Local Spirit
Denver, CO – Hassina Omar, Clear Channel Radio Account Executive, recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan where she delivered over $42,000 in aid to the disabled children of Afghanistan. Omar is continuing the mission that her late mother, Khadija Omar started several years ago at age 74 by founding Handicapped Children of Afghanistan. The Omar family was determined to send wheelchairs and other needed supplies to innocent Afghan children who had been victims of land mines and other devices. Omar’s mother made two trips to the region to deliver supplies before her death at age 76.
Omar says, “I will continue my beloved parents mission of helping innocent children that have suffered during decades of war. My father had built hospitals in the most rural places in Afghanistan to help the less fortunate. We are truly blessed and I will remain humble and I will always be grateful for I am amongt the lucky and I have realized how unfortunate so many innocent people are. If I can make a small difference in their lives, I will continue to do so.â€
Tax deductible donations may be sent to: Handicapped Children of Afghanistan, c/o UMB Bank, 707 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO, 80206.
Local Artisens
This gentleman makes rugs, and below the raw leather rolls become beautifully intricate purses, wallets, and shoes.
2007 Delivery
Afghans for Tomorrow Humanitarian Aid Shipment #7 through the Denton Program: 951 boxes weighing 25,569 lbs. were moved from Castle Rock and Aurora, CO to Peterson Air Force Base on December 17th, 2007. They were loaded then unloaded with the help of the New Hope Men’s Fellowship volunteers – pictured below:
Approximately 700 boxes, that had been stored in Castle Rock for over 9 months, were transported by several trucks, vans and a large bus, by the NHMF shown above. The boxes of humanitarian supplies included hand knit wool garments, blankets, shoes, clothing, sewing supplies, medical equipment, seed packets, and more.
Handicapped Children of Afghanistan Charity started by the late Khadija Omar (below right), and continued in her honor by her daughter Hassina, raised money for wheelchairs and crutches for Afghanistan last year. These filled 258 boxes shown in the two trucks (on the right) which transported these supplies from Aurora to Peterson. Khadija and her late husband Dr. Abdullah Omar were always involved in helping the less fortunate people of Afghanistan.
These boxes were loaded on pallets then airlifted to Bagram, via Ramstein AB, Germany, and brought by A4T representatives to our Kabul Office in January 2008. We thank Najibullah Sedeque and Najib Mojaddidi for all their help with the delivery and the storage of these boxes.
This was the last of the New Hope Men’s Fellowship shipments to Afghanistan. A4T is very grateful to all these volunteers.
Seven shipments have been sent from Castle Rock under the Denton Program since 2002. The Denton Program is a US Government program (under the State Dept. and USAID) to ship humanitarian aid from the US to countries around the world at government expense.
As soon as the customs have approved of these boxes, the items will be distributed to the Afghans who greatly need them.
Clear Channel Press Release 2007
Handicapped Children of Afghanistan is featured on Clear Channel’s “Local Spirit” site:
Clear Channel Employee Promotes Fundraiser for Disabled Children in Afghanistan
Denver, Colorado — Hassina Omar, a Clear Channel Communications employee in Denver, is working to raise money for disabled children in Afghanistan. All of the proceeds from a book that Hassina is promoting will be used to buy wheelchairs for needy Afghan children. Hassina and her group have raised $8,300 towards their goal of $10,000.
The cost of the book is $10.00 and you may contact Hassina Omar for further information or to purchase the book.
September 15th, 2007 in
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Church Helps Deliver Supplies to Afghanistan
From the Denver Post’s “YourHub.com”
Contributed by: Joe Howard on 5/3/2006
The New Hope Presbyterian Church Men’s Group in Castle Rock is making sure medical, educational and other supplies get to those in need in Afghanistan.
Four shipments have completed the process and been delivered to the recipients in Afghanistan. Shipment 5 was delivered to Peterson AFB on April 5 and is in the Air Force transportation system on its way to Afghanistan.
The major portion of the fifth New Hope Men’s Fellowship shipment to Afghanistan was medical equipment. Denverite Hassina Omar, an associate of KOA radio, spearheaded a drive to raise money for the buying of wheelchairs to be sent to Afghanistan for the children who can’t get around, let alone to school, unless someone carries them. Many lost limbs stepping on buried land mines left by the warring parties. Now, there will be 187 who do it on their own. Sun Medical, Inc. in Longmont stepped up and provided them at cost with some extras freely given. Friends and persons throughout Colorado contributed money for the project.
The wheelchairs and other gifts poured in. This shipment (number 5) finally weighed in at 13,802 pounds, was packed in 436 boxes and valued at $144,319. It consisted of humanitarian items -187 wheelchairs for children with limbs lost, blankets, quilts, diet supplements to help halt rampant diarrhea and toys as well as equipment for schools including seeds for survival gardens, school books (preschool to university-level reading), fabric and sewing equipment for vocational training, papers and pencils, computers, printers, as well as clothes and shoes for all ages – boys, girls, men and women.
9News . Denver Family Helping Children in Afghanistan
Article and Interview by: Cheryl Preheim . July 7 2004
DENVER – Thousands of children have been seriously hurt in the violence in Afghanistan. Many children have lost their arms and legs in land mine explosions. A family in Denver is trying to help.
Khadija Omar, 74, and her daughter, Hassina, are raising money to buy wheelchairs for these children.
In June they delivered 70 of them to children in need. They are selling a book about the late Dr. Abdullah Omar, their husband and father. He was the minister of Public Health in Afghanistan. When the Russians invaded in the late 1970s he was taken political prisoner. The book is his memoir from his time in prison. It is $10.00 and all the proceeds go to the efforts to buy wheelchairs. If you are interested in buying a book or making donations you can send a check to:
Handicapped Children of Afghanistan
UMB Bank
707 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80206
Wall Street Journal Article
Day by Day – A roundup of good news from Afghanistan
by ARTHUR CHRENKOFFÂ . Monday, July 26, 2004
Afghans living in the West are likewise contributing to the reconstruction of their homeland. Khadija Omar, 74, and her daughter, Hassina, of Denver, are meanwhile raising money to buy wheelchairs for thousands of Afghan children who have lost their limbs to land mines. In June they delivered 70 wheelchairs. .
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We are becoming hopeful day by day. We cannot develop our country, in which the fighting existed for 23 years, within two years. We had lots of problems in the past but they are being solved day by day.” So says Ghalib Shah Azizi, the head of Afghanistan’s Northern Chamber of Commerce.
If there is one place where good news is harder to come by than Iraq, it’s Afghanistan. For that we should partly blame our poor understanding of Afghan realities and our consequently unrealistic expectations. An isolated, poor, largely rural country with harsh landscapes and limited natural resources, Afghanistan has been for the past quarter century cursed with constant violence and oppression. Good news from Afghanistan will not in any foreseeable future mean mushrooming shopping malls and health clinics in every village. For the people who have suffered so much for so long, relative peace and absence of theocracy are a good start.
But, as is the case with reporting from Iraq, we shouldn’t let the media off the hook so easily, either. For all the fashionable talk about Iraq distracting the Bush Administration from the war on terror, it’s largely been the media that have ignored Afghanistan except for the occasional story about another skirmish with the Taliban remnants or the explosion in opium cultivation.
A Note From the Children
To Khadija Omar from some Kabul locals…
July 1st, 2004 in
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