About Fahima Vorgetts

Fahima Vorgetts has been a peace activist all of her life. She began her humanitarian work at age 10, giving literacy classes to her friends' mothers who could not read. She is currently the director of the Afghan Women's Fund (AWF). AWF is an all volunteer organization that builds schools and health clinics for girls, and community cooperatives for women (shoras) to revitalize their lives in Afghanistan. AWF also supports other women's organizations by offering private, grassroots education, vocational training, and health programs in Afghanistan.

AWF has been educating an eager population, formerly ignored, with the encouraging support of the men of each community. Fahima's work, developing education, good health, and industry for the women and girls has shown to be the only positive, peaceful way to enable and strengthen the people of the region to resist the terrible oppressions being imposed.

Aside from Fahima's work in Afghanistan, she travels across the United States speaking to groups, explaining her process of peaceful development, to gain support - ethical and financial - so she can continue to do the work she has found to be so successful. All of her work, and that of her team, is done on a volunteer basis. The funds she raises go directly to building more schools and educating the populations she contacts. The more contact she has the more success she sees.

All of the proceeds from the Valley Caravan Gallery sales support the many programs of the AWF volunteer organization. Not only does the money from sales fund the projects, but a lot of the products are made by the shoras she has started.

Awards received:

-Lifetime Achievement Award for “Extraordinary Contribution to Peace and Justice” awarded by the Ann Arundel Peace Action Organization in 2002.

-Dec 2003 “Human Rights Community Award” by the UN Association of the National Capital Area

-September 2004” Most outstanding volunteer” award from Ann Arundel County. Assisting her in Annapolis is an advisory committee working on fund raising and outreach.

“I bought a

beautiful rug from Valley Caravan knowing that almost

100% of the profit was going to help educate

Afghan women.”

"Afghanistan haunts me. It is my country, and my heart breaks for my sisters who undergo daily oppression and hardship there. My passion and life's work is to reclaim and rebuild the country so that women can be free and equal, and can live a life of dignity, literacy, and financial stability."

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