Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women in Herat
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Summary
Empowering rural Afghan women and girls in Sar Asia and Jaghartun, Herat, through education and training opportunities as well as health and reproductive health services.
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Received $4,233 from 37 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
No education has been available to women and girls in the western province of Herat, Afghanistan, for the last decade under the Taliban regime. Project partner AIL began offering Women’s Learning Centers to women and girls in rural Herat during 2003. These health and education services at Sar Asia and Jaghartun include a maternal/child health clinic, literacy and skills training classes. This project will ensure continuation of these urgently needed, accessible, culturally sensitive services.
Activities
Literacy, English, and income-generating skills classes are offered at the Women’s Learning Center in Sar Asia and serve about 540 women per month. The clinic in Jaghartun provides over 2,500 patients per month with medical care and health education.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,233
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,027
Total Funding Goal: $7,260
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
A full array of medical and educational services are offered to hard-to-reach rural women and girls through Women’s Learning Center sites at Jaghartun and Sar Asia. These centers improve the education and health of Afghan women in the region.
Project Message
When we see the happy faces of these rural people, we feel great hope for the future of this country. People are eager to learn and learn. Many women use the center and the community supports AIL.
- Coordinator, Afghan Institute of Learning
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 June 01, 2004.
Latest Update from the Field
Stories to Share
By Alison Hendry - Administrative Assistant, August 22, 2008 01:31 PM
Since the establishment of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) the goal has been to help women improve their situation in life. Following is a story from one of AIL’s Women’s Learning Centers (WLC) that exemplifies the changes that AIL can make in Afghan women’s lives.
When AIL student Rizagul was a young girl, her father was put in prison by the Taliban regime where he was tortured and eventually died leaving behind Rizagul as well as her young brother and her unwell, elderly mother.
Four years ago, Rizagul came to one of AIL’s rural WLC’s in Herat province and began taking various classes, including literacy and sewing. After two years at the center, she was able to gain admission to a regular school at grade level 4, a feat which might have taken 4 years in a regular school, if it happened at all. Even after gaining admission to the regular school, Rizagul continued to take extra courses after school at the center. Unfortunately, the center was closed due to the poor security situation in the region and Rizagul could no longer take the extra courses she had come to enjoy.
A short time ago, an AIL teacher saw Rizagul at a wedding ceremony in their village. Rizagul could not control her emotions and tears rolled down her cheeks as she told her teacher, “You and AIL were the best thing for me, and I will never, never forget your encouragement and all of the hard work that you did for me.” She added, “I can now read in Arabic, I know how to sew and I am a student in grade 6. What I am is because of the AIL center.”
She also said that she is sewing dresses to make money for her family and that she has so much business that she has to turn some people away. She is making a good living, and is able to improve her family’s economic situation with her sewing skills.
Rizagul also told the teacher, “With the advice that the center supervisor wrote in my ‘memory notebook’ (try to learn, work hard for a better future and pray for your future) I am sure that I will go toward a better future.”
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