With their employees fearing retribution and without work, charities leaders say the latest Taliban oppression has far-reaching consequences for millions of Afghan families.
Ms Rawi's charity operates four orphanages in Afghanistan and supports thousands of disadvantaged women and children across the country."When circumstances change, I change the method of how I'm doing my work," she said."All women who work from Mahboba's Promise in Afghanistan are coming to work, they are staying in some of my orphanages ... because I won't give up on them.
Save the Children International's Shaheen Chughtai said a third of the agency's staff in Afghanistan were female."No humanitarian organisation likes to stop its work ... we believe it was unavoidable at this time," he said.Mr Chughtai said in Afghanistan's "socially conservative society", female staff were crucial in delivering services such as healthcare."Many of them are playing roles that cannot be done by men.
The United Nations has also announced some of its "time-critical" programs in Afghanistan would be temporarily stopped due to a "lack of female staff", with officials noting that female workers were "key to every aspect of the humanitarian response."It came after the top UN official in Kabul met with a Taliban government minister in Kabul on Monday, calling for the ban's reversal.
On Thursday, the foreign ministers of a dozen countries including Australia, the UK, Canada and the US signed a joint statement, describing the ban as "reckless and dangerous" and warning it would put lives at risk.
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