My Nonprofit Reviews

Central Asia Institute serves communities that have been marginalized for decades and are very hard to reach. It has provided educational opportunities for children and youth in the most mountainous and rugged villages of Badakhshan in Afghanistan and in the farthest villages of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, for example. While most organizations left or cut their support to Afghanistan last year after the collapse of the Afghan government, Central Asia Institute stood up, did the hardest work, and scaled-up its efforts and grants to reach out to more deprived children and communities. The organization cares about the communities it serves. This year when parts of Pakistan was hit by floods, the organization never stopped to reach out to the generous individuals and organizations here in the US to raise fund for them and to support communities that had been impacted.