NEJAT

Kabul, Afghanistan

NEJAT was founded in 1991 as a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political Afghan organization in Peshawar, to respond to the increasing number of cases of drug addiction among Afghan refugees living in refugees' camps in Pakistan. The founder of NEJAT, Mr Mohammad Qasim Zamani, who was also one of the Afghan refugees in Peshawar during the Afghan - Soviet war, established the first drug rehabilitation centre in Hyatabad on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Qasim and his people named the centre NEJAT (Rescue) and began to take Afghan people in for a residential period of rehabilitation. Since then the organisation has expanded its services and in 2002, after the fall of the Taliban regime in Kabul, relocated back into Kabul, Afghanistan where it operates from today.

NEJAT has been active in the past in different districts of Afghanistan and operated for years clinics in the remote north-east and east of the country and in Badakhshan and Jalalabad. Today NEJAT is operational in Kabul with 2 rehabilitation centres and with residential and community based programs for male, female and children in Faryab a northern province in Afghanistan. NEJAT also manages an Outreach Service supported by DO-International, a Community Services in Kharabad, the red-light district of Kabul supported presently both by the UNODC and UNESCO and a day -care centre (pre-treatment program).

NEJAT started getting involved in income generating activities for the people supported through the treatment centres and it operates a car workshop located in Kabul where training in mechanics is provided. A tailoring, embroidery and football production unit is also active to provide training and facilitate income opportunity for ex-drug users or their family members.
NEJATs activities contribute significantly to the social development of the Afghan society and is well respected and recognised by both Government and international agencies in Afghanistan as well as by the local community for its contribution to national reconstruction.
www.nejat.org.af