2016-11-12T02:41:55-07:00 2015-12-31 990 2015-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2016-11-08 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 407109 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping poor and needy families mostly in Afghanistan. Currently nine million people are living below the poverty level in Afghanistan. Panah Charity's main mission is to help the needy families to become self-sufficient and stand on their own feet. Panah is creating job opportunities for needy women and men and providing them the small tools they need to work. Panah also provides humanitarian aid to starving families and children such as food supplies, heating supplies during the winter season, and clothing to children. Panah also places makeshift tents for homeless families of young children. This foundation also creates water wells in very dry and poor villages in Afghanistan to provide clean drinking water to needy people and children. In 2015 Panah Charity built individual rooms, bathrooms, classroom, and sewing workshop for 49 homeless families; mostly widows with young children living in tents in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. 5 5 0 4 0 0 275420 407109 0 0 0 0 0 0 275420 407109 188560 298254 0 0 7720 8014 0 0 0 20497 23233 216777 329501 58643 77608 243241 320849 0 0 243241 320849 X Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation with active 501c (3) status. This charity was formed in 2010 to help poor and homeless families. Since 2010 Panah Charity has been helping the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Panah Charity's mission in Afghanistan is to help poor families to find work and stand on their own feet via Panah Charity's self-sufficiency programs. Panah Charity also builds water wells in poor and very dry villages in Afghanistan and delivers basic food supplies and heating supplies to the families of young children in order for them to survive. Panah Charity is also supporting homeless and poor orphans with clothing and school supplies. In 2015 Panah Charity built rooms, bathroom, classroom, and sewing workshop for 49 homeless families who were living in tents in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Now these families each has a room, their children attend school, and the widows are attending sewing workshop to learn sewing skills and eventually make a living. 1 0 37400 37400 0 Panah Charity provided heating supplies to displaced and homeless families during the freezing winter season of 2015 in Afghanistan. These families were living below the poverty level in Afghanistan and in each household there are at least 7-8 family members including young children. Winter is a deadly season for poor young children in Afghanistan. In winter 2015 Panah Charity was able to deliver heating supplies to 1,400 poor families and this helped over 9,800 individuals, 800 blankets to widows, wooden stoves to 49 families moved from the tents, and warm clothing to 1,250 homeless children living in tents. 92914 92914 0 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies to 1427 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan in 2015. These are families with young children living below the poverty level. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, onion, potato, and salt. This humanitarian aid fed 10,000 individuals for a month for a total cost of $73,221. Also, Panah Charity in Eid celebration provided sheep meat to thousands of poor people who can't afford to eat meat on a regular basis. The total cost of serving meat to families and children was $19,693. 13410 13410 0 In 2015 Panah Charity built 13 water wells in many different villages and locations where poor and homeless families are living. In those locations children had to walk miles to bring drinking water from other water wells and this was very difficult particularly during the summer and winter seasons. By building these water wells Panah Charity helped needy families and also saved children from transportation of water in buckets from miles away. 107732 107732 0 Panah Charity built rooms, water well, and bathrooms in phase 1 of the shelter project for 49 homeless families living in tents in Kabul. In phase 2 of the same project Panah Charity built classroom and vocational workshop for women. 8734 8734 0 Panah Charity supported the residence of Panjshare Province during deadly earthquake. hundreds lost their lives and thousands lost their homes as the result of this deadly incident in the winter season. Panah provided blankets to help the survivors of Panjshare tragedy. 29600 29600 0 Panah Charity provided monthly sponsorship to some poor widows with young children and disabled individuals who can not work. With a minimal monthly support, the families were able to buy food for their children and survive. Also Panah Charity helps some very poor college students with their school supplies, clothing, and transportation expense in order for them to continue with their college education. 8464 8464 0 Panah Charity also repaired broken homes of some very poor families. Fixed the roof, walls, windows, . . . etc. Panah also helped the head of household in these families to become self sufficient by creating small work opportunities for them. 154530 154530 0 298254 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 X 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 CA X Rokhshana Benish 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 X Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 40 X 0 0 0 Durrana Rahimi Vice President 2 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 2 X 0 0 0 Shamsullah Mehry Project Coordinator 5 X 0 0 0 Mirza Mohammad Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan 40 X 0 0 2280 0 0 2280 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 407109 0 407109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 407109 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 298254 298254 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8014 0 8014 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5100 0 5100 0 9691 0 9691 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4553 0 4553 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3889 3889 329501 298254 31247 0 243241 320849 243241 320849 0 0 X 243241 320849 0 0 0 0 243241 320849 243241 320849 77608 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 58180 235063 287890 275420 407109 1263662 58180 235063 287890 275420 407109 1263662 1263662 1263662 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED South Asia 1 3 Program Services Panah Charity Foundation has a branch and maintains an office in Kabul, Afghanistan. The permission to open up the branch was obtained from the US Department of States in Washington DC and the branch is fully registered in Afghanistan and has active work permit. From that branch Panah Charity is helping homeless families who are living below the poverty level by providing them basic food supplies, heating supplies in the winter season, clean drinking water by building water wells, providing monthly assistant to widows with young children, creating self sufficiency programs, providing tents to homeless families, making basic rooms as shelters, . . . etc. The President and board members of Panah Charity monitor the fund that the charity transfers to Afghanitan for program services very closely and maintain all supporting documentations, supporting photos, and videos from each and every project and program services. Panah Charity maintains very detail books for the expenses. 315050 1 3 315050 0 0 0 0 0 0 Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Panah Charity built 49 rooms, bathrooms, classroom, and sewing workshop for 49 homeless families who were living in the most tragic condition in tents in a location named Qala Abdul Ali in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Now these families have roof over their head, their children are attending school, and the women are learning sewing skill to work and become self sufficient. The land for this project was directly gifted to these 49 homeless families by an individual and Panah supported the homeless families by building 49 simple rooms for them and moving them in December of 2015 from tents to basic rooms. Each family received one room. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The Founder/President's daughter is the Vise President. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The President goes over the form in the weekly meetings. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The organization performs according to the policies and regulations of 501c(3) of non profit organizations. The founder who is also the president of the charity, is coming with an extensive finance and management background and she monitors the operation and performance of the organization every step through in US and in the branch office in Afghanistan. She obtains and carefully reviews all records, bills, invoices, and other supporting documents from the branch office in Afghanistan to assure the accuracy of the financial statement. The branch office also maintains video recordings from all activities of this charity and copies of the videos available in US home office as well. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization can provide to public upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e This expense is related to charges from Paypal $2,282 for donations made via credit card and exchange rate of currency $1,204 for donations received from Canada, and other bank charges $402 for receiving wires and miscellaneous expenses. The extension was filled and accepted by IRS.