Female Orphanage in Kabul
Where girls learn to dream again
In the heart of Kabul, we support the growth of young girls at the Future Hope orphanage, which today is home to 37 girls who have survived violence, abandonment, and deep trauma.
Here, every day, these girls gradually reclaim their right to childhood, in a country where far too often their fate could be to be sold or forced into early marriage.
In Afghanistan, an orphanage is not simply a roof to take shelter under. It is a warm bed in which to feel safe, a meal that nourishes and reassures, the chance to study, to laugh, or simply to play. It is the concrete opportunity to break the cycle of poverty and denial of rights that affects the youngest, opening the only possible path towards a different future.
Hunger and malnutrition, however, remain invisible yet devastating enemies: they permanently compromise children’s physical and cognitive development and leave deep scars on a psychological level. This is why we have set up a psychological support service within the orphanages. A specialist regularly follows the girls, assessing their well-being and offering individual and group therapeutic pathways—indispensable tools to help them process the traumas they have experienced and find balance again.
One of the girls welcomed into the orphanage told us:
I have found the courage to believe that my dreams can come true.
Her words capture the profound meaning of what we seek to build: not only a shelter, but the chance to hope again.
Today in Afghanistan, over 3 million children under the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition, while more than 13 million are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. According to Save the Children, in 2024 alone about 7.8 million children will not have enough food. In such a dramatic context, orphanages are not just a refuge: they are the last chance of survival. The only lifeline allowing hundreds of girls and boys to escape hunger, abuse, early marriage, and exploitation.
The project began in May 2025 with the support of OTB Foundation.
