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A charity set up in the memory of Linda Norgrove is distributing nearly £23,000 into projects in the country.
Linda, 36, was killed in Afghanistan in October in a rescue attempt which went wrong . She had been kidnapped two weeks earlier.
Her family set up a trust in her name. Cash has been raised by community fundraising in the Hebrides topped up by Linda's savings, donations from the Norgrove family as well as a grant from the Scottish Government.
The trust is ploughing nearly £15,000 into a project teaching improvised Afghan women to read and write and provide basic arithmetic lessons to girls.
The literacy project in remote communities in eastern Afghanistan will also support libraries and is in collaboration with a Canadian group.
A range of smaller grants is aimed at making a big difference for poor people often forgotten about in the unstable country.
Some £432 is helping a refuge in Jalalabad which cares for about 40 widows. It is providing seedcorn funding for poverty stricken fatherless families to set up their own micro business by baking and selling bread.
Children in the same widows’ home have received footballs and cricket sets as well as eggs from a £97 grant.
A chicken coop and 10 hens are providing supplementary nutrition food for a disabled children’s home in Kabul thanks to £313 from the foundation.
Ten children who slept on a hard concrete floor now have comfortable beds. The funding of £2000 had the added bonus of buying beds made locally.
Three and a half thousand pounds is funding a start-
It will also provide English lessons to a number of other guides to help them develop tourism which is an important source of income in the region.
Linda’s mother Lorna says she is delighted to have help children with things they never had before like toys, a bed and nutrition.
John Norgrove said the literacy programme was important as because education for females was rare and few Afghan women could read and write.
Linda Norgove charity helps Afghan children 31/8/11