WAW have in place an outreach and awareness program whereby people of Afghanistan can attend, to learn more about the less harsh version of Islam than what they have been previously taught by ultraconservative individuals who may have malicious intents or by men who are chauvinists by nature.
WAW also reaches out to the community by visiting schools and police stations, with the hope to encourage Afghans to attend the awareness centre.
Their board and staff consists men and women and a diverse representation of age, religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation".
It is a walk-in centre, though most clients are referred by government ministries, the police, the Independent Human Rights Commission, or other NGOs.
Women in the shelters are provided with training in literacy skills and vocational classes, as well as given sessions with their counsellors and/or lawyers, and their families.
When these counselling sessions do not help in resolving their problem, WAW offers legal services on behalf of these women to file for divorce.
[8] The Bill of Rights was signed by the president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and it was handed to all women who participated the third annual conference of the organization.
Provisions for Afghan girls and women are poor, regardless of intensive efforts to broaden their freedom, rights, and prominence of life.
WAW provides a learning program that helps uneducated children meet the criteria for entrance into local schools, in addition to individual and group therapy.
WAW provides a closure by finding these women employment and a roof over their head when they are independent and ready to move out the protected place.