Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 333
333 I believe the people of Afghanistan can relate to the difficul - ties of these early years because Afghanistan itself recently expe - rienced a large influx of refugees, even though Afghanistan had an established government to cater for their needs, many of the refugees were able to pay their own expenses, and the number of hosts was far greater than the refugees (ten million Afghans had to entertain one or two hundred thousand refugees). One can thus understand how much pressure was faced by the small Community of about two thousand when they were tasked with feeding and housing hundreds of visitors and poor migrants while at the same time financing the propagation of Islam and fighting for their own survival. The requirements of the Community were not for a couple of days or months or years. They continued to grow with every year and God continued to provide for them by His grace. In 1898, per - ceiving the need to impart religious education to the youth of the Community, the Promised Messiah as opened a high school, thus greatly increasing the expenditure. He then started two monthly journals, in English and Urdu, which required even more funds. God continued to provide for it all. Today, the Community runs a high school, a theological college, a girls’ school, and several pri - mary and middle schools. There are also many Indian missionaries working in different countries. Missions of the Community have been established in Mauritius, Ceylon, England and America. Several departments oversee publication, instruction and edu - cation, general administration, arbitration, adjudication, etc. The budget of the Community amounts to about three to four hundred thousand rupees. All this is provided for by the grace of