STARS (SKILLS TRAINING AND REHABILITATION SOCIETY)

Skills Training And Rehabilitation Society (STARS) was established by a group of intellectual Afghans thoughtful about their country in 1997 to offer services to their extent to the needy country people, particularly women.

STARS is registered with the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation Development, ACBAR and in some provincial departments.

-       Since 2006 STARS is member of Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN)

-       At the Asian level, since 2006 STARS is member of Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN). Is mentionable that, STARS is the only women focused organization in Afghanistan, working in DRR Section.

-       Globally STARS is a member of Hauirou Commission, a network struggling for supporting the grassroots women and uplifting them economically and make them self-sufficient

-       In early June 2008, Coordination of Afghan Relief (CoAR), Organization for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR), and Skills Training and Rehabilitation Society (STARS) took the initiative of establishing a working network. The move came to make the relationship between these organizations more systematic and formal after cooperating with each other in different areas proved to be more productive. Furthermore, the initiative is directly in line with the Afghanistan NGOs Law, Article 9 of which states that nongovernmental organizations can enter into partnerships and networks to improve, expand, or implement their activities and projects. Also, the current trends and the need for reconstruction of Afghanistan lend sufficient justification for the establishment of such a network. 

Given the importance of a synergized operation, the network has been established for the following objectives:

A.1 Objectives                          

A.1.1 Long term

To help bring specialization among the network organizations to ensure efficiency and effectiveness facilitated through existing capacities and work experience

A.1.2 Medium term

• To adopt a coordinated and cohesive approach to the implementation of projects implemented by the member NGOs in line with the strategies of the networked organizations
• To help build organizational capacity in fundraising for implementation of interventions in line with the strategies of the member organizations
• To assist in sustainability of ongoing interventions of the network and to extend support to civil society organizations at the national and regional levels
• To consolidate transparency and accountability among members   
  • To provide and/or exchange technical assistance and share lessons learned among network members 
  • To help in basic management activities 
  • To ensure coordination among member organizations for multilateral support 

A.1.3 Short term

• To provide and/or exchange technical assistance and share lessons learned among network members 
• To help in basic management activities 
• To ensure coordination among member organizations for multilateral support

STARS advocates for gender equality and assisting local communities to improve their educational facilities, usually in the rural areas where the opportunity for education is extremely limited. The STARS helps to slow down the migration of people to urban slums by helping them to improve their conditions in their areas. STARS build relationships between people and invite them to take part in improving living conditions on individual and country level as a whole. STARS choose small-scale, sustainable projects, which suit the capacities of the local situation and where people are motivated to make good use of them.

STARS focuses on the poor and educate the poor to learn how to utilize the in-hand resources to make it to a better and a more comfortable life.

Based on its rational ideologies, STARS identifies every individual in the world as an international citizen. Every one is as important as the next one. Thus, the organization tends to enforce social and economical equality as well as equity between men and women and protection of human rights so that everyone is hopeful for a truly friendly future.

STARS works in full acquiescence with legal systems and official policies of Afghanistan and its operational procedures in no way contradict the legal requirements in the country of operation but takes note of the high interests of the valorous people of Afghanistan.