The Archewell Foundation Impact Report
While the world started to open back up, new crises unfolded in places like Afghanistan and Ukraine.
As millions became refugees, AWF tapped into a global network of organizations to support the immediate and long-term needs of families.
Our grant to Human First Coalition helped move nearly 8,000 individuals out of Afghanistan, including support with documentation and information collection to ensure safe passage and transportation.
After The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited a US military base temporarily housing families in need, AWF helped Team Rubicon and its more than 2,000 volunteers serve nearly 4,000 individuals through homemove ins, essential items, and vital care. Our donation enabled Team Rubicon to extend and expand their work, directly supporting multiple operating sites across several new states, and helping 853 families move into new homes
- Welcoming Refugees -
We wanted to ensure those fleeing were met with a warm welcome.
AWF provided a grant to Welcome.US in support of their work mobilizing a refugee response, and to provide direct assistance to agencies working to properly welcome and resettle these families.
As the largest coalition in evacuee resettlement history, Welcome.US has spent the past year supporting our new Afghan neighbors as well as those fleeing conflict in Ukraine, welcoming a total of 174,497 people here in the US.
When war broke out in Ukraine, we felt the urgency and a responsibility to assist with the response.
To support those fleeing, AWF provided critical funding to HIAS, an international Jewish humanitarian organization that provides vital services to refugees and asylum seekers in more than 20 countries. Our assistance also helped in their efforts to expand humanitarian efforts across Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, and Romania, as well as increased resources for housing, food, and transportation for the most vulnerable, especially women and girls. HIAS also directed its emergency response resources to Right to Protection, a longtime Ukrainian partner specializing in legal assistance, and advocating for refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless persons who have been forced out of their communities and homelands
And when it came to ensuring the safety of those who were not able to leave, we turned to our partners at The HALO Trust.
The HALO Trust employs and trains men and women from war-torn communities throughout the world to remove landmines and dangerous explosives — making land safe and available for farming, grazing, transit, commerce, and play. As the world’s largest humanitarian landmine clearance charity, HALO also educates families and children about the risk of unexploded ordnance.
As conflict erupted in Ukraine, AWF funded HALO in its expanded mission to deliver medical supplies and assistance, provide shelter to families fleeing the violence, and distribute risk education messages in person and on social media. As a result, HALO has delivered 373 explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) sessions, teaching more than 10,000 people how to recognize, avoid, and report lethal hazards and has helped evacuate an estimated 300 people from Kramatorsk and neighboring communities.
- Aid to Nigeria -
Most recently, in response to catastrophic flooding in Nigeria, which displaced over one million people, destroyed homes and farmland, and took the lives of hundreds, The Archewell Foundation worked to urgently meet this climate disaster and humanitarian crisis, facilitating rapid community donations to Save the Children and UNICEF – two vital organizations providing assistance and medical support to those affected by the floods. UNICEF is actively supporting 2.6 million children who have been affected by the floods in the areas of health, water, sanitation and hygiene, child protection, education, nutrition, and cash transfer assistance. The Archewell Foundation’s funds are helping support UNICEF’s goals of treating 712,800 children with severe acute malnutrition, providing 1.2 million people with clean and accessible water, reaching 828,600 children with education, and providing 340,000 children and caregivers with mental health support.
" The Archewell Foundation played an enormous role—in fact, the most critical one—in helping Human First to grow in 2021 - 2022. We are a young organization, formed in the midst of a crisis and dealing with many ongoing crises this year. After the initial media blitz on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and most especially with the invasion of Ukraine, donors quickly lost interest in Afghanistan – but Archewell has been there for us. We were able to provide humanitarian aid in various forms to upwards of 10,000 individuals in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most especially, in the 4 months after receiving the grant, we supported all living expenses for approximately 1,000 at-risk Afghans living in safe houses that we operated in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
- Safi Rauf, Co-Founder of Human First Coalition
"We are extremely grateful for The Archewell Foundation’s generous contribution toward Team Rubicon’s Afghan Resettlement Program. We were able to provide tangible, immediate benefits through services like donated goods management, arrival site management, and housing as well as translation services, and logistics support. AWF’s support fueled our commitment to supporting vulnerable people, and our ability to support Afghan families, nimbly and effectively, at various stages of their transition. "
- Jeff Byard, VP of Operations, Team Rubicon
