HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The organization has been established in Kabul and registered in Ministry of Planning of Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan in January 9, 2003 with Registration No 946 & Based on Government Requirement Reregistered with the Ministry of Economy of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on September 29, 2005.

Care of Afghan Families (CAF) is an initiation of senior Afghan staff of several international organizations (i.e. Action Contre la Faim- ACF, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies-IFRC, and World Health Organization-WHO). The aim of founder of the organization was to transfer the knowledge and experiences of international organizations into a local agency to guarantee sustainability of the interventions.

 OUR MISSION:

 Enable the families to fight against diseases and its causes - poverty, unawareness and injustice. 

The word (Disease) in the above statement means all kinds of individual and social problems that the families are faced with and prevent them from being in healthy status – to develop their full potentials.

 OUR VISION:

 CAF is well known as the first reliable development partner of the community, among the society, the government and other development partners.

 PRINCIPLES

 CAF respects all laws and regulation of Afghanistan, especially the NGO legislation. The organization – all its members and delegations – respects the following ethical principles:

i.Independency: The organization is managed by its Board of Directors leaded by the Board of Trustee and follows its internal policies and charter. In practice it can be seen as interdependency with our development partners and the government. 

ii.Non-political: the organization doesn’t support any political party. But CAF will explain the cause of disease to the families, if it is injustice and wrong political decisions.

  iii.Equity: CAF is against all kinds of discriminations and perform its service on the base of equity, which takes intoconsideration the need of families. Where we work and what we do that is needed.

iv.Professionalism: The organization performs all processes of management of  its projects with professional standards.

v.Transparency, honesty and accountability: the organization – its members and delegations – strictly follows these principles during performance of all organization’s missions, to be able to give reliable information about the management of resources to our development partners.