What's New

Oc­to­ber 1, 2009

See Afghan Tourism in Ac­tion - in Bamyan with PAR­SA

Come find out why ev­ery­one keeps talk­ing about Bamyan!

Oc­to­ber 21, 2009

A Sus­tain­able Fu­ture for Afghanis­tan: Re­viv­ing and Re-brand­ing Tourism

Read about Afghanis­tan's new Na­tio­n­al Park at Band-i-Amir and PAR­SA's Bamyan Fam­i­ly Park...

De­cem­ber 1, 2009

Afghan Scouts learn to ‘be pre­pared!’

KAB­UL – In the Unit­ed States, be­ing a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout is just one of many di­ver­sions of­fered to kids.

Sal­i­ha Farid, a PAR­SA so­cial work­er, ex­plained that op­tions for young Afghan men are limit­ed once they leave the or­pha­n­age. "Af­ter fin­ish­ing their ed­u­ca­tion, boys have the op­tion ...

Fe­bruary 2010

Afghanis­tan 1970 - 1975, Im­ages From an Era of Peace

Pho­to­graphs by Joseph Hoyt

Fe­bruary 2010

2009 Psy­cho­so­cial Train­ing Eval­u­a­tion

Fe­bruary 24, 2010

The Afghan Scouts Pro­gram

Read about PAR­SA's new Afghan Scouts pro­gram...

March 2010

March Newslet­ter No. 1 Now Avai­l­able

Read the lat­est news about PAR­SA in Afghanis­tan...

March 2010

March Newslet­ter No. 2 Now Avai­l­able

Read the lat­est news about PAR­SA in Afghanis­tan...

Ju­ly 1, 2010

Coun­terin­sur­gen­cy Down for the Count in Afghanis­tan…

Presi­dent Oba­ma’s Afghanis­tan strat­e­gy isn’t work­ing. So said a pa­rade of Afghanis­tan watch­ers dur­ing the flap over war com­man­der Gen­er­al Stan­ley McChrys­tal’s fir­ing. But what does that phrase, so of­ten in the me­dia th­ese days, re­al­ly mean? And if the strat­e­gy re­al­ly isn’t work­ing, just how can you tell?