A CHARITABLE TRUST REGISTERED NUMBER 294581

Since 1986 Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal (SGAA) has provided artificial limbs and walking aids for more than 20,000 patients and physiotherapy treatment for nearly 50,000 patients. The Halo Trust says there are still hundreds of thousands of landmines in Afghanistan, the result of 25 years of virtually uninterrupted warfare. In consequence an enormous number of Afghans have been disabled; the UN estimates 3% of the population are directly affected and 10% indirectly affected.

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Visit to Afghanistan - Oct 2011

I arrive at Kabul airport on a beautiful sunny day in October...read

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Who Do We Help?

Working inside Afghanistan has made SGAA more aware that the needs of the disabled Afghan population have increased - not declined - over the past decade. Initially the majority of patients were war-related casualties including mine-blast victims and children from the refugee camps suffering from post-polio paralysis. Today SGAA helps a wide variety of patients including children with polio, cerebral palsy and congenital defects such as clubfoot, defects of the hip and spine and TB of the spine. Women patients suffer from orthopaedic problems such as osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fractures and soft tissue injuries and neurological complaints.

Early 1998 a Community Outreach Programme has been established in Ghani Khel, 25 miles from Jalalabad, with the help of HealthNet International and UNICEF. This programme provides physiotherapy services to the local hospital and outlying clinics as well as health education and disability training to local health workers and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs). This much-needed Outreach Programme has since been extended to eight districts in eastern Nangarhar and we have built and staffed new clinics attached to regional hospitals in Kunar Province and Laghman provinces in 2003.