Help Afghan Communities Help Themselves
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Summary
Provide training and seed funding to strengthen the efforts of five grassroots Afghan education centers serving 2,350 women and children started by local leaders responding to local needs.
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Received $1,671 from 6 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Twenty-five years of war have devastated Afghanistan. Roads, buildings, homes, and farms are destroyed. There aren’t yet enough schools and learning centers. In the midst of this ruin, the fall of the Taliban has brought a renewed sense of hope for peace. Many rural and poor Afghans aren’t waiting for the government and are starting their own learning centers for women and children in abandoned homes or other buildings. Five centers serving 2,350 women and children need training and seed money.
Activities
Project partner AIL will provide partial funding to ten Afghan organizations serving more than 2,350 students. AIL will also train their managers and teachers to strengthen and sustain their work despite ongoing instability and poor funding.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,671
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $87,704
Total Funding Goal: $89,375
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
AIL is a grassroots Afghan organization with 10 years of successful programs. Now AIL is sharing its expertise with new grassroots centers to prepare them to provide quality education services in Afghan communities today and for future generations.
Project Message
We can surely say that with AIL’s financial and intellectual cooperation, this center is improving day by day. We are thankful to AIL for its assistance and cooperation.
- Ahmad, Manager of a community organization in Kabul
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 22, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 01, 2005.
Latest Update from the Field
Stories to Share
By Alison Hendry - Administrative Assistant, August 22, 2008 01:20 PM
We’d like to share the story of Omid, a student of one of AIL’s centers in Mir Bacha Kot. This grassroots center was begun in 2003, and the following story shows the importance of these centers.
My name is Omid, I live in Mir Bacha Kot and am a student in grade 5. I am studying English at the AIL center in my village, and I have finished two levels of this course. I am very lucky to be a student here because my teacher is very talented. He uses new teaching methods and is a very hardworking teacher. He gives us speeches, reading and writing homework and he checks our work regularly. My father is illiterate and cannot help me when I have problems with my school work. It is important to me to become educated so that day by day my situation in life can improve.
Another wonderful story that we’d like to share is that of Mursal, a computer student in one of AIL’s grassroots centers.
My name is Mursal, I am a student at one of AIL’s centers. I love to learn, and when I saw that my friends were able to use computers and speak English, the international language, I began seeking a good course that would suit our cultural life. After a long time I found this center and saw that it was appropriate for me and I joined. Now I am studying Math, English and Computers. I am so happy to have a computer class here because many of the students really needed to learn computers as well as English. We want to thanks the AIL Office for establishing this class for us. We wish them the best of luck.
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