Humanitarian Assistance

Counterpart International (Counterpart) has shipped almost $800,000 worth of commodities to Kabul and Rustaq, Afghanistan. Tools, heavy machinery and furniture helped rebuild Rustaq after the deadly earthquake in the early 2000s. Shipments of clothes, medical supplies and educational equipment reached thousands in Kabul and Rustaq with urgent needs for medicines and basic household goods. Counterpart has offered humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan since 2001, working from the office in Kabul.

Ocean Freight Reimbursement:
USAID's OFR Program offers subsidies to Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs) to ship commodities overseas for use in privately funded development and humanitarian assistance programs. This has been critical to the success of Counterpart's programs and operations across the world. While USAID reimburses the costs of ocean freight, participating PVOs pay for other costs, such as commodity acquisition, warehousing, insurance, local transportation and distribution.

Since its inception, Counterpart's OFR program has worked in Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chad, Cambodia, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Liberia, Lithuania, Mali, Mauritania, Maldives, Nicaragua, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.

Photo: © Counterpart International.