Our services

These are the services we can provide at the Afghan Partners office: 

• English classes (taught in Pashto and Dari for every level) 

• Permit testing support - interpretation during the permit test at the DOT 

• Housing assistance - finding housing, speaking with landlords, filling out rental  housing applications, applying for rent assistance programs offered by other organizations, eviction management 

• Food access - transportation to and from the grocery store, locating food pantries, transportation to and from local food pantries 

• Job support - Job search, applying for jobs, transportation and translation for job interviews, workforce applications 

• Health care - making medical appointments, transportation

• Medicaid - enrollment, paperwork, re-enrollment

• School enrollment - filling out enrollment forms for minor children 

• University enrollment - assistance with university application forms, applying for tuition assistance programs offered by other organizations

• Reading mail

• General translation and interpretation based on client goals

Afghan Partners in Iowa receives federal funding to run our programs. We have to follow the government's rules to use this funding. The funding is only for program expenses. We cannot give out cash, help with rent payments, pay university tuition, or pay for other household bills. If we do any of these things, the government will stop the funding, and we won't be able to keep running our programs.