Gifts of Hope

ARZU STUDIO HOPE believes that active engagement is about how you give, not what you give. Here are just three of the many ways to get involved.

GIVE HOPE TO EVERYONE IN YOUR LIFE

Streamline your giving, lift spirits and give HOPE this season. In a world filled with enough “stuff,” this year invest in HOPE Certificates to show how much you care.

Give $25 for a Safe Place for Women: Your gift helps to support our newest programs at the ARZU Women's Community Center in Dragon Valley, Bamyan. Your donation helps to support materials for our baking program, literacy classes and laundry facility. The WCC allows women and girls a safe location to engage in programs and use collaborate in a protected setting, while learning valuable life skills relating to team work, leadership and self-esteem.
Purchase a $25 Gift of Hope.

Give $100 for Lasting Artisan Employment: Your gift helps to buy an artisan weaver a quality metal loom to enhance her employment opportunity for years to come.
Purchase a $100 Gift of Hope.

Give $500 for Improved Community Healthcare: Your gift helps to buy a much need ambulance for rural communities to help transport villagers seeking medical attention to a healthcare facility.
Purchase a $500 Gift of Hope.

GIVE & RECEIVE A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, TOGETHER

More and more families now join together to give and receive as a group. Pooling your resources works any time of year - for holidays, weddings, special birthdays and anniversaries, even reunions. Consider family contributions toward the purchase of an exquisite ARZU STUDIO HOPE rug. Make a genuine difference as your family gives together to help the families of over 600 ARZU women weavers in Afghanistan. Treasure your new rug as a family heirloom collectible complete with the unique story of the Afghan weaver who created it. Visit our Collections Page to purchase a rug.

GIVE TOGETHER THROUGH OUR FACEBOOK SOCIAL GIVING HUB

Organize, join and share on our Facebook Social Giving Hub. Participate together with your family, friends, colleagues, classmates, club, church group, or team. Customize your giving and optimize the sum of your parts. Team up to: donate professional services, purchase rugs, collect financial donations, or support this season's Gifts of Hope. Share new ways to contribute meaningful change on our wall and post how you plan to give back together — to Empower Women of Afghanistan, our Cause.

TOGETHER IS THE OPERATIVE WORD

Working together ensures that your contributions create maximum transformation for greater positive change. In our case, Afghan women, their families and their communities become more economically sustainable.

Through the spirit of collaboration, the opportunity your support builds greater female equality, choice, income, and investment in education, children, healthcare, community, and the future. This is why “together” is the operative word for giving in today’s world. Hope lives here – for all of us.