WAR SURVIVORS CAMPAIGN

SUPPORT AFGHAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS ADVOCATES & ALLIES  |  SUMMER 2022

Over July 15th to August 31st, 2022, Humanitarian Bazaar and its allies will launch a fund drive campaign to rally direct support for Afghan widow-headed families and women’s rights advocates we know personally who are currently threatened and attempting to migrate or go into hiding, alongside covering costs to help other team members and advance the project in Ukraine and Syria. This is all part of our War Survivors Advisory, it’s coming training manual, How Civilians Survive War (late 2022), and documentary-in-progress, How We Survive (2023). Here’s how the campaign will work and who we are helping. ===>

HOW CAN WE TAKE PART?

While we need to raise funds urgently, we offer a variety of ways to earn this support and reward you for helping, so can choose either to join an event or training, hire us for services, and/or donate. And you can make an earmarked donation if you prefer to donate to one aspect more than another:

• Friday July 14th, 2022  |  LAUNCH PARTY IN BERLIN:  AFGHAN CULTURE NIGHT ft. LIVE MUSIC & TEA. Location and details to be announced soon. Will either be live streamed and/or filmed and shared.
• Scheduled upon request  |  DINNER PARTY:  Afghan Cuisine & Music Made for You (3-4 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Producing Film & Media in Tough Situations (3-4 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Building Humanitarian Response Careers I: Introduction (3-4 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Building Humanitarian Response Careers II: Simulation Exercise (3-4 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Hostile Environment & First Aid I: Introduction / Classroom Overview (6-8 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Hostile Environment & First Aid II: Practical Field Exercises (6-8 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Hostile Environment & First Aid III: Security Incident Simulation (6-8 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Advocating for Human Rights in Afghanistan and the Afghan Diaspora: Introduction (3-4 hrs)
• Scheduled upon request  |  TRAINING:  Advocating for Human Rights in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora: Introduction (3-4 hrs)
• August 30th, 2022  |   CAMPAIGN FINALE PARTY IN BERLIN:  AFGHAN CULTURE NIGHT: Location and details to be announced soon.

HOW WILL THE FUNDS BE SPENT? 

Over 2013-2022, Humanitarian Bazaar conducted many projects, but our most important and dangerous has been our War Survivors Advisory. We conducted deep research on how to speed up the learning curve for civilians trapped on the frontlines, including how to advise humanitarian agencies to improve earlier evacuations and shielding techniques. Having to overcome numerous violent attacks on our partners, terror strikes hitting close to us, robberies, and losses, we had to work carefully and patiently.

Along the way, in 2021-2022, our Afghan frontline team members and close allies were forced to escape or go into hiding threatened by the takeover of the Taliban; we helped some evacuate, but others are still trapped. Then in 2022, when the Russia-Ukrainian War escalated, we had even more team members forced to shield or escape. While our findings will be presented in our coming guidebook, How Civilians Survive War, and our documentary-in-progress, How We Survive, we have a moral imperative to help our field teams, at least the Afghan widow-headed families and women’s rights advocates first. That said, here is an overview of the budget break down:

1. Grants for Special Needs (35%) 
   1. Afghanistan: Trapped widow-headed households  |  2 families  |
   2. Afghanistan: Womens rights advocates seeking safe migration  |  3 families  |
2. Ad Hoc Pay for HB’s Frontline Field Workers (40%)
   1. Afghanistan: HB’s former team and allies in tough situations who wish to work for assistance  |  3 families
   2. Afghan Diaspora: HB’s team, former team, and allies who wish to work for assistance to help their families still threatened in Afghanistan  |  4 families
   3. Ukraine: HB’s former team and allies in tough situations who wish to work for assistance  |  2 families
   4. Ukraine Diaspora: HB’s team, former team, or allies who wish to work for assistance  |  2 families
   5. Syria/Turkey: HB allies who already helped on our project whom we would like to pay for a few days work to help improve our safety advocacy for medical workers  |  3 families
3. Core Program Costs (25%)
   1. Completing first public release of How Civilians Survive War, our new guidebook, including our team above, advocating how to speed up the learning curve for civilian safety in frontline areas. (New assessment survey, editing, translation)
   2. Media Production. (Rental of camera, audio, lighting gear for producing quick advocacy for this project and the families involved)
   3. Computer. (Laptop repairs, software, web hosting, urls, new hard disk)
   4. Studio Rental. (Keeping our home base in Berlin)
   5. Admin. (Registration, tax, and related fees in Berlin)

TOTAL FUND DRIVE GOAL ======>    € 40,000+ / $ 42,500+ 

Questions? Comments? Ready to Support? 

We will add our client interface / buy / donate button here very soon. In the meantime, please find us at Humanitarianbazaar.org, Facebook group/hb, Instagram/hb, and/or humanitarianbazaar@gmail.com.