1. TOLPALENA SOCIAL UNION

2. INTRODUCTION A non-profit, non-political and independent organization based in Afghanistan for the Afghan people who have been suffering from wars for the past thirty years Central office in Kabul, Afghanistan Ready to work in other provinces all over Afghanistan if given enough resources Working in order to create better financial capacities for Afghan families Working as an association for Afghan people especially for women to have trainings and resources to create their own small businesses Working to give new ways for Afghans especially women who are not allowed to work outside to have businesses at their homes Working to encourage every Afghan for having faith in a better Afghanistan and their own economy

3. MISSIONS Creation of small organizations, companies, farms, factories and small home businesses for Afghans so that they get to have a strong economy and so that they won’t have to be dependent on anyone else except themselves is one of our primary goals Efforts in creating a good and strong financial resource for the poor families of Afghanistan and especially to women with a low or no family income Supporting the rights of and working for the martyrs and the disabled who have suffered from wars in Afghanistan Training the Afghan families as professionals and training for the professionalism of their small family and home businesses Giving academic and professional trainings to women with low or no income and to their family members Continued…

4. MISSIONS Fighting against any kind of discrimination towards women (Fighting against sexism) Fighting against any kind of racism, nationalism and fascism in Afghanistan Striving for a better economic state of the housewives who stay at home all day and using their human resources for the good of their own and the national economy Holding conferences and events as in which we can encourage women to have better roles in the society Creating working opportunities for literate women who are unemployed Helping the less privileged families with low or no income in terms of academics, economy, social lives, working opportunities and many more aspects of life Establishing an ESL course under the authority of ACCESS project for the least privileged youth in an area of Kabul where those youth don’t have access to ESL courses.

5. WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW: CURRENT PROJECT We have a project for right now in which we donate honeybees to the eligible poor families of Afghanistan so that they can produce high quality honey in their homes using only an empty spot and some flowers or trees in their yards or maybe close to their homes, we train the families well before donating them the honeybees and we try to teach them how to train honeybees, how to get honey from it, how to keep the bees, how to fight with any types of sicknesses of the honeybees, how to check them frequently and many more activities that are needed in order to produce honey and keep the honeybees as a source of income for themselves The ministry of agriculture in Afghanistan has been helping us with some of the trainings but for donating honeybees to more families, we still need to be funded because we need to buy the clothes of honeybee keeping and the honeybees, their shelters, all the equipment needed for keeping the honeybees in order to donate them all to the eligible poor families

6. RESOURCES IN HAND: OFFICES Central office in Airport road Kabul, Afghanistan A site office in Mirbacha kot, Kabul - Mazar-e-Sharif highway located in Kabul, Afghanistan We also have the plan of making another site office in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan

7. RESOURCES IN HAND: PLACES A place for keeping the honeybees which is used as a source place for donating honeybees to the eligible poor families located in Mirbacha kot district, Kabul, Afghanistan A market in which the families who we have donated the honeybees to, can sell their honey products located in Sare kotal, Kabul, Afghanistan 2 acres of land in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan for building another site office for the organization (Plan for near future if provided with enough funds) We are also planning to make markets available to the families who will have their honey products in other areas of Kabul in the near future if we receive enough funds for all our works

8. HUMAN RESOURCES CEO: Mohammad Ismail Hafizi Board of directorate: Bahram Alizada, Mohammad Ismail Hafizi, Nawid Yousufi, Sahar Fetrat and Soraya Afzali Financial manager: Muska Gailani We are strongly in need of site workers, trainers, site managers, guards for the resource centers and some other people, that we couldn’t have afforded to hire due to not having enough funds and not being financially supported and ready for it.

9. OUR LOGO

10. OUR CURRENT RESOURCE CENTER

11. TRAINING SESSIONS

12. RANDOM PHOTOS FROM OUR CURRENT PROJECT

13. LAND FOROUR NEW RESOURCE CENTER PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR IF PROVIDED WITH ENOUGH FINANCIAL SUPPORT

14. FACEBOOK PAGE Like our facebook page for more information on our projects, our organization or our future plans and projects www.facebook.com/tolpalena