About Us

Our Vision

WASSA envisions a peaceful and inclusive society where women and vulnerable people are empowered to participate equally in all aspects of social, economic, and public life — promoting human dignity, equity, and mutual respect for everyone.

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Our Mission

To facilitate humanitarian assistance, social empowerment, sustain durable solutions, and access to human rights in Afghanistan through the strategic goals and objectives of WASSA.

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Our Values

Honesty: WASSA tries to be honest, transparent, and reliable in all aspects of deals.

Commitment: WASSA is committed to best serve Afghans effectively and constructively. Locally lead, globally skilled accountable to stakeholders.

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Women activities and social service association

About Us

An efficient, accountable, transparent and community supporter organization, the Women’s Activities and Social Services Association (WASSA) was established in 2002 as Afghanistan's first women’s independent organization.

WASSA aims to promote women’s equal participation in socio-economic sectors of the country, is committed to seeking ways for women empowerment, and works directly with communities to bring change in the social attitude of the society in Afghanistan.

WASSA throughout its lifetime has implemented various projects in the Western Region committedly and accountable. WASSA has played a positive role as a civil society promoter and has supported various projects successfully. Meanwhile, WASSA is known as the most capable NGO in the Western region for implementing protection activities.

WASSA has actively and effectively been implementing projects after the change of regime in 2021. WASSA being the strategic partner to some donors has been supporting society empowerment and humanitarian assistance via protection, livelihood, food security, Health, nutrition and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene as well as socioeconomic resilience projects in the Western Region.

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Where we are

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Herat

Ghor

Badghis

Farah

Kabul

SDG
    Women Living Under Muslim Law
    WASH-Cluster
    Protection Cluster
    OCHA
    ACBAR
    FSAC-Cluster
    AHF
    Afghan-Women-Network
    Afghan-Civil-Society-Forum

    Membership

    WASSA Membership (Network)

    WASSA is an active member of national and regional coordination bodies and networks, aligning its activities with SDGs and relevant cluster priorities. WASSA is an active member of clusters including Protection, Child Protection, Food Security (FSAC), Health, ES/NFI, Education, GBV, PSEA and AAP clusters/subcluster/networks, as well as Coordination bodies such as OCHA, OCT, ACBAR, and serves as co-chair of Afghanistan localization technical working group (LTWG), co-lead of the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and MHPSS Working Groups in the West Region, while actively contributing to the Durable Solutions, ACSM, and Localization working groups, ensuring its programs follow cluster standards and humanitarian best practices.