Download the report for 2019-20 here  

Our submission to the Senate inquiry argued that diaspora NGOs should be recognised by the Federal Government as equal partners, thereby reaping the significant benefits of working with the sector to deliver Australian aid. We said that our work in Afghanista...

Yesterday Afghanistan reported 741 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total to 16,500. The country is in lock-down and we are very concerned about women in the villages where AADO has worked. They urgently need food supplies and hygiene packs. We hope our vo...

Annual Report 2019 presented at the AGM

Our carpentry program for boys has been going for ten years now with 69 graduates who have gone from having almost no education to having skills in a much-needed trade in Kabul. All either have jobs or have started up their own business in Kabul, allowing them...

There are thousands of teenage boys living precariously in Kabul, most with little education and few prospects. 68 of these boys have now graduated from our one-year carpentry & literacy course, and are now employed or in their own business, supporting...