Care of Afghan Families Care of
Afghan Families (CAF) is a non-governmental, non-political, not for profit and
independent organization.
Background
The organization has been
established in Kabul and registered in Ministry of Planning of Islamic
Transitional Government of Afghanistan in January 1, 2003 and the Registration
is No 946. CAF is also reregistered with the Ministry Of Economy based on the
requirement of the government and the registration number 68 dated September 29,
2005.
Care of Afghan Families (CAF)
is an initiation of senior Afghan staff from other international organizations
that have many years of working experience in Afghanistan.
The aim of founders of CAF
was to transfer the experiences and expertise from several international
organizations to an Afghan organization in order to ensure the sustainability of
efforts as well as provide opportunities for Afghans to use their full
potentials in humanitarian and development activities.
Currently, CAF has total of
1211 full time paid staff, 1500 Community Health Workers (volunteer), 826 Health
Posts, 1335 Health post level shora, 113 health facility health shora. CAF is
running 82 health facilities, which includes 1 provincial hospital, 6 District
Hospitals, 16 CHCs, 2 CHC+, 45 BHCs, 10 sub-centers and 2 mobile teams in Takhar,
Badakhshan and Kunduz provinces of Afghanistan.
AIMS of The Organization The aim
of the organization is to improve the quality of life and living conditions
among the Afghan families.
Work Principles:
CAF respects all laws and
regulation of Islamic Government of Afghanistan especially the Non- governmental
organization rule.
To perform its humanitarian
and development duties, the organization strictly respects the following
principles:
Independency:
As the real and 100 % independence is impossible in
practice, for CAF independency means to keep the policy of interdependency
with the stakeholders and partners with performing of all its activities in
the light of overall goal of the organization.
Non-political:
the organization doesn’t support any political
party. But CAF will explain the cause of diseases and infirmities to the
families even if it is injustice and wrong political decisions.
Equity:CAF is against all kind of discriminations
and perform its service on the base of equity, which take into consideration
the need of families and population.
Professionalism:
in order to have efficient and good quality services the organization
performs all processes of management of its projects with professional
standards.
Transparency and
accountability:
the organization is ready to give reliable information regarding the
management of its budget and projects to related organizations and the
government.
