AADO welcomed guests to its 2025 AGM and Dinner on 18th November, at the Afghan Gallery restaurant. The 2024-2025 Annual Report and audited Financial Statements were presented and accepted at the AGM, our NSW based auditors reappointed and our current AADO act...

  April 2025 marked the Graduation of 95 women who had participated in the 20th round of AADO’s Literacy and Livelihoods for Village Women. One participant told us: ‘As a woman and a mother who had not been able to study, this course was a golden opp...

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...

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...