Working With Widows

In 1999, Rabia Balkhi set up a health clinic in Khorasan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan for desperate and vulnerable Afghan widows and their children.

Many women had lost their husbands in war and conflict and they needed to flee the Taliban regime with their families. In refugee camps they struggled to care for their children on their own so Khorasan's health clinic provided them with access to free medical consultations and basic, but life-saving medicines e.g., antibiotics. We provided food packages too for the clinic to distribute to families considered to be the most needy. After the Taliban was ousted, Rabia Balkhi relocated its operations to Afghanistan in 2002.