Afghan Academy of Hope and The Main Boys Orphanage in Kabul

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AAOH IN THE PRESS

2008 Articles in the Press

SB News Press 1/27/2008 -
By James Zoltak
NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR

Expanding opportunities for women and helping provide for orphans in post-Taliban Afghanistan puts Goleta resident Diana Haskins on the fault line between those she seeks to assist and fundamentalist.... Read More >>

2007 Articles in the Press

SB News Press 4/06/2007 -
By James Zoltak
NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

ON A MISSION: SANTA BARBARA RESIDENT HEADING TO AFGHANISTAN.... Long-time Santa Barbara resident Diana Haskins couldn't have pointed to Afghanistan on a map when her husband woke her up on Sept. 11, 2001 to tell her a plane... Read More >>

NWI The Times 3/26/2007 -
BY Janet Moran
TIMES COLUMNIST

MISSION TRIP REMINDS OTHERS OF SACRIFICE: Despite the profound security issues Dr. Lynda Cook, formerly of NW Indiana & now living in Indianapolis, will journey to Kabul in April with Diana Haskins of California to help 3 orphanages... Read More >>

2006 Articles in the Press

UNICEF 3/21/2006 -
BY UNICEF STAFF WRITER

Kabul 21 March 2006 – As Afghanistan's new school year officially begins tomorrow (Wednesday) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Rima Salah, has warned of a continued threat facing Afghan women and children... Read More >>

2005 Articles in the Press

Networking Times Jan'05 -
By Marian Head
STAFF WRITER

GODS'S LOVE MANIFEST: Diana Haskins’s story is one of tremendous hope for children all over the world who suffer from any number of horrors, including personal abuse, war trauma, lack of education and malnourishment... Read More >>

SB News Press 3/07/2005 -
By Melissa Evans
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

NOBEL NOMINEE TO SPEAK ON PLIGHT OF AFGHAN WOMEN: She has been attacked and imprisoned, but Suraya Parlika has been undeterred in her efforts to change the way women are treated in Afghanistan...
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SB News Press 1/19/2005 -
By Melissa Evans
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

AFGHAN NONPROFIT LOOKS TO AID TSUNAMI SURVIVORS: Her three-year-old nonprofit, Afghan Academy of Hope, has been handed two humanitarian awards, has partnered with another organization to provide meals to thousands of orphans and... Read More >>

2003 Articles in the Press

The CC Times 3/5/2003 -
By Linda Davis
CONTRA COSTA STAFF WRITER

THERAPISTS HEAD TO AFGHANISTAN TO HELP KIDS TRAUMATIZED BY WAR: Early next month, a group of East Bay volunteers -- three of them professional therapists -- will travel all over the war-torn country in a humanitarian project designed to bring emotional support to children traumatized by... Read More >>

October 2003 -
By Diana Haskins
PERSONAL TRIP DIARY

AFGHAN DIARY: RELIET EFFORT FOCUSES ON HEALING THE HEARTS OF ORPHANED CHILDREN We were suddenly in the subdued company of about 250 Muslim men dressed in traditional tunics, overflowing pants and turbans and prayer caps. ... Read More >>

2002 Articles in the Press

Valley Voice 9/11/2002 -
By Derek Batty
VOICE NEWS EDITOR

MONTESSORI PEACE CEREMONY MARKS 9/11: Hope and beauty were the two words that described Montessor Center School Wednesday as just under 300 students donated items to Afghan orphans during the peace and goodwill assembly on the Goleta campus.... Read More >>

SB News Press 5/11/2002 -
by Rhonda Parks Manville
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

SOUTH COAST WOMAN RAISES $7,000 FOR STUDENTS - DESTINATION: WAFIA SCHOOL IN AFGHANISTAN Diana Haskins of Goleta left for Kabul on Friday to meet the Afghan children she is helping support at an orphanage and school. ... Read More >>

SB News Press 3/12/2002 -
Editorial News

GIFTS FROM HEART DO WORLD OF GOOD... At first, Diana Haskins of Goleta planned to send money to New York. "But as I sat down to write a check, I had a profound feeling that it needed to go in a different direction," she told the News-Press... Read More >>

SB News Press 3/05/2002 -
by Rhonda Parks Manville
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

BRINGING BACK THE HOPE - THREE WOMEN JOIN FORCES TO HELP AFGHAN CHILDREN: After the attacks of Sept. 11, several things happened to Diana Haskins of Goleta that dramatically altered the way she views the world. ... Read More >>