Professor Brett Sutton AO, Director Health and BioSecurity CSIRO, formerly Chief Health Officer for Victoria, captivated the packed Afghan Gallery audience speaking on his ‘Experiences in Afghanistan Working with Médecins Sans Frontières’. This highly s...

AADO’s AGM on 27th November 2023, was held at the Afghan Gallery, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. AADO’s Annual Report 2022/23 including audited financial statements was presented and its Committee of Management elected for 2024. AADO President, Jackie Fristack...

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...

As the crisis in Afghanistan intensifies, support is desperately needed for thousands of displaced Afghan women and families living in the open with few belongings. AADO, last week, funded initial urgent basic relief for displaced children in camps – wat...