about us
Hungarian International Aid has been implementing humanitarian and development programmes in Afghanistan since 2001. In addition to humanitarian aid, HIA’s objective is to achieve, through its permanent local office, long-term sustainable results in the areas of education, rural development, health care and capacity building.
HIA directly assisted 2,216,307 people since 2001.
Project locations: various districts of Baghlan, Balkh, Jawzjan,
Samangan, Sari-Pul, Faryab, Takhar, Badakhshan, Paktika and Badghis provinces.
Our projects
Humanitarian assistance
- Distribution of food) and non-food items over 45,000 tons
- Humanitarian assistances for flood and earthquake affected population in different provinces
- Food and cash for work programmes (Cash based support provided in the value of more than 15,000,000 USD)
- Winter assistances
- Supporting refugee/returnees’ camps and hospitals
- Disaster preparedness programmes
- Covid19 assistance
Rural Development & Livelihoods
- Establishment and development of farmer co-operatives and small-scale enterprises, provision of instruments, training of employees, transfer of technologies, starting the production
- Small scale power stations
- Complex water and irrigation management programmes
- Development of drinking water systems
- Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes
- Complex waste management programme
Education
- (Re)construction and equipping 16 schools in Northern Afghanistan
- Construction of Technical school and hostel
- Strengthening the infrastructural background of educational institutions (construction of latrines, surrounding walls)
- Distribution of school kits, school feeding programmes
- Vocational training courses in various sectors
Healthcare
- (Re)construction of Basic Health Centres
- Hygienic trainings, distribution of hygienic items
- Distribution of medicine, medical equipment
Capacity Building
- Development of local capacities of state and non-state actors
- Capacity development for specific target groups
Our work in numbers
HIA assisted 2,216,307 people since 2001
10 provinces with active projects
22 years in operation
Cooperation
Main donors & partners: WFP, Hungarian MFA/Hungarian donors, Hungarian state ministries; Hungary Helps Agency; European Union; Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan; ACT Alliance; WFP; FAO; UNICEF; IOM, FCA
