Those attending the Afghan New Year 2025 – Nowroz 1404 celebration were privileged to hear Peter Khalil MP speak on the principles, politics and practicalities of overseas aid, both within the Australian context and more broadly on the international scen...

  This year is your chance to be informed and intrigued! AADO is bringing you a special surprise speaker, with an eminent background in Defence, Foreign Affairs, the Brookings Institute and aid fields. You will hear him speak on Development Aid for Afgh...

AADO held its AGM on Wednesday 13 November at the Afghan Gallery, 327 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy at which members approved AADO’s Annual Report for 2023/24 and Financial Report for the year. Reports covered activities with continued funding of literacy course...

Government secondary schools for schoolgirls in Afghanistan have remained closed since August 2021.  AADO Executive Director, Nouria Salehi, determined to redress this in her visit to Kabul in mid 2022, liaising with an Afghanistan Education Support Coalition...

AADO has funded 10 month courses in literacy, numeracy and dressmaking for thousands of rural women provincial villages. The women up to Round 18 of this program also received a sewing machine on graduation enabling them to earn a livelihood through making and...

This book by AADO’s President is a true account of her mother’s remarkable life escaping the aftermath of WWII in Europe. At this time, Afghanistan’s rulers, King Zahir Shah and his able ministers sought to develop and modernise their nation. This brough...