Afghans in Crisis Network (AiCN)

AiCN no longer has the resources to help additional families outside its original list. It has cooperated and supported other international volunteers with placing persons on lists, and regularly tries to steer people in the right direction for additional resources and links of other organisations that help. In the first year of operations, AiCN helped approximately 100 additional families in some shape or form, whether it was provision of advice, helping persons get flights or simply referring their names to lists.

The support AiCN has received from external actors has been paramount to its success. These have included People Help, Global Campus of Human Rights and the dozens of volunteers which supported AiCN in its infancy to prepare cases for european embassies. AiCN has and still engages with a plethora of volunteer organsations which have helped get afghans to safety. Some of these cannot be mentioned due to the fear of them being even further overwhelmed with requests.

Given the current climate, AiCN will stop supporting evacuations by the end of 2023. It is very probable that it might not be able to evacuate all the persons still stuck in Afghanistan, but it will try its best by looking for possible scholarships or jobs for the remaining families (mostly male activists with families). From September 2023, AiCN will ensure its sustainability by building up AiCN as a key advocate of women´s rights for women and children in Afghanistan.

We support Afghan Females and their families at risk by providing legal advice, adminstrative support, or provision of scholarships in Europe. The afghan families that we have helped are either known to us personally or have been recommended and identified as at risk by personal colleagues/friends we have worked with.