Afghanistan I.T.W., Identity, Training, Work is a decentralized cooperation project managed by Istituto per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (ICS – Institute for the Cooperation to the Development, Alessandria, Italy) financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The general objective is the empowerment of afghan women's and children's life conditions.

Afghanistan is a country that still suffers, after 30 years of war during which the infrastructures, the social-economic and legal system have been destroyed. Women are the first victims of Afghan reality. They are still heavily discriminated, in a society where patriarchy, fundamentalism and violence have always the best on the applications of fundamental rights, culture and social protection.

In this context, the Afghan civil society tries to affirm its own voice.
In particular the association HAWCA (Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan) has been involved for years in the battle for the rights of the women and the children.
The job of this association represents a brave attempt to give people the tools to express themselves and live in dignified conditions, aiming at the education and at the vocational training, as to start a real process of democratization.