Invisible Children

Afghanistan, Kabul and Kapisa. 2012-2023. Beneficiaries: 105 minors

Children in Afghanistan represent 48.5% of the population or 20 million persons (UN, 2022). 13.1 million Afghan children are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. Among children under five, one in two suffers from severe malnutrition (UNICEF, 2023). Due to a lack of basic services, an estimated 212 children died every day in 2022. As such, Afghanistan has become a hell for children.

NOVE helps Afghan children suffering from hunger, cold and all the dramatic consequences of poverty, war and violence. In addition to supporting their parents with emergency and development activities, NOVE has dedicated this particular project to the direct care of children living in orphanages and foster homes.

The main activities of Invisible Children include:

From 2012 to 2019, we’ve contributed yearly to covering the costs of food, clothing, medical care, heating, educational material, staffing and whatever else is needed for 30 children from different ethnic groups. They’ve been victims of trauma and taken in by the House of Flowers in Kabul, the only Afghan family institution adopting Montessori methods.

In 2022, we also helped cover the expenses of the Window of Hope home in Kabul, which houses 25 children with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Since March 2022, we’ve been continuously providing daily meals, heating, basic necessities and schooling materials to the 50 children housed in the public orphanage in Kapisa.
This has been done under an official agreement with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Taliban Emirate. Our staff monitors conditions among all the children on a weekly basis and verifies that the donated goods are fully given to them.

DONORS: Only the Brave Foundation.

PARTNERS: Ministero del Lavoro e degli Affari Sociali dell’Emirato Islamico d’Afghanistan.

Amount spent on the project

€ 664,00 ANNO 2020
€ 15.969,28 ANNO 2022

The only hope for the future. The story of Khalid

Khalid is a 7 year old boy. He has two brothers and a sister. His mother is a housewife, his father a police officer. They had a prosperous and happy life, a normal life. Then a bomb hit the very street where Khalid's father was on patrol. The man died, and a different life began for his family (…)

A new beginning. Nisar's story

Nisar is twelve years old and has been living in the Kapisa orphanage for a year and a half now. His father died 9 years ago, 2 years ago, due to a serious illness, he also lost his mother. The older sister, aged 20, got married and moved to Iran. When their mother died, Nisar and his 13-year-old sister Behista moved in with their uncle, the only remaining relative (...)

A life away from preoccupation and poverty. The story of Rustam

Rustam is 9 years old and his younger brother, Omer, is 7. They both lived with their parents until August 2021. However, after the enforcement of the Taliban regime, their father became a drug addict and left his family to never come back again. To this day, they are unaware of his location. They do not even know whether he is still alive or not (...)

A hope to dream. Mirwais's story.

Twelve-year-old Mirwais has been in the Kapisa orphanage for several years. His father was killed while fighting against the Taliban. A year later, his mother also died of an illness, which Mirwais called "yellow-eye disease", probably a form of hepatitis. This is how he described his family situation, "My father died in the war and my mother from illness. So, I'm fatherless and motherless" (...)