name: Aschiana
text: Aschiana works for the promotion of the welfare of vulnerable street working children and their families in accordance with basic child and human rights.  Their projects provide services to create opportunities for developing life survival skills, basic education, literacy and numeracy, skills development, vocational training, health education, access to basic health care and the development of environmental awareness.
  
  Aschiana began its activities in March 1995 in Shahr-e Naw area of Kabul city to address the needs of children begging and working on the streets in this area. By 1998 four centres had been established throughout Kabul and in 2002 a centre opened for accelerated education for higher aged girls. 
  
  Aschiana was also responsible for establishing home based schooling in different areas of Kabul to provide education to the girls who did not have the opportunities to seek out education in the centres.
  
  In order to support the families particularly the mothers of the street working children, programs such as carpet weaving, tailoring, chicken raising, womenâ€™s bakeries and hairdressing were established for the women, along with education surrounding issues relating to health, child rights and human rights. 
  
  Currently 6 centres exist in Kabul at: De Afghanan, Shahr-e Now, Khair Khona, Shash Darak, Karte Char, Kote Sengi.
  
  2004 saw the opening of a Vocational Training Centre in Mazar-i Sharif for 100 students. 
  
  To date Aschiana has 2,580 children attending itâ€™s centres.  It also caters for 800 children through itâ€™s street outreach program for children living in the IDP (internally displaced people) camps unable to access the centres providing them with basic education, recreation and health education.
  
  Al Jazeera (International) report (15th May 2007):
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