Fast-Tracking Education for Afghan Women and Girls
Afghan Girls Education
Summary
Provide literacy and fast-track education to 1,000 women and girls who were deprived of learning by the Taliban and are now eager to become literate and earn grade certificates at an accelerated pace
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
After decades of war and the Taliban regime, most Afghan women and girls are not literate. Project partner AIL offered underground schooling to thousands of girls during the Taliban regime and now offers classes in the open to women and girls through Educational Learning Centers (ELCs). They are eager to learn as much and as quickly as possible after years of having no opportunity to learn. ELCs offer women and girls culturally sensitive education at safe locations close to their homes.
Activities
ELCs give women and older girls a chance to catch up on years of missed schooling by studying for grade certificates on a fast-track basis. Many ELC students finish multiple grade levels within one year’s time.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $35,143
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $29,856
Total Funding Goal: $65,000
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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
1,000 women and girls will become literate. Hundreds will choose to further their education on a fast-track basis and some will mainstream into government schools at age-appropriate grade levels.
Project Message
When I joined AIL’s literacy course, I couldn’t even take the pencil properly in my hands. Now I can read the first volume textbook and write. I am very happy and wish a long life for AIL.
- Zarghona, literacy class student
Who is Running This Project
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Toc Dunlap
President
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
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Organization
Creating Hope International (CHI)
Creating Hope International PO Box 1058
Dearborn,
Michigan
48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
http://www.creatinghope.org
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Where this Project is Located
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This project is located in
Afghanistan
and can also be found under
Children.
For more information about Afghanistan, read the Human Development Report on Afghanistan or the Wikipedia entry for Afghanistan.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 1, 2005
Latest Update from the Field
Sakena Wishes to Thank Her Supporters
By Sondra Johnson - Dr. Yacoobi Featured in Best-Selling Book, September 11, 2009 10:44 AM
Sakena Yacoobi and her organization the Afghan Institute of Learning is one of the topics in Chapter Nine of the book. Dr. Yacoobi grew up in Herat, Afghanistan and then came to the United States to study at the University of the Pacific and Loma Linda University. Concerned about the condition of her people back in Afghanistan, Sakena returned to Pakistan to work in Afghan refugee camps and later went to Afghanistan. Although the Taliban forbade girls from getting an education in Afghanistan, Sakena was instrumental in establishing a string of secret girls schools with community support.
Today, the Afghan Institute of Learning has multiple education programs in Pakistan and in seven provinces of Afghanistan. There are educational learning centers for women and children, preschool programs, post-secondary institutes, a university, and teacher training programs. In addition, AIL has an in-depth program of health education and treatment for women and small children. Since its start in 1995, AIL has trained nearly 16,000 teachers and over 3.5 million women and children have received a quality education. With the health programs included, AIL has directly impacted over 6.7 million Afghans.
Sakena has been and continues to be recognized for her work. Her philosophy is to develop a program from the grass-roots level so the community members are an integral part of the process. State Kristof and DuWunn in their book Half The Sky- "American organizations would have accomplished much more if they had financed and supported Sakena, rather than dispatching their own representatives to Kabul...The best role for Americans who want to help Muslim women isn't holding the microphone at the front of the rally, but writing the checks and carrying the bags in the back."
Dr. Yacoobi and the work of the Afghan Institute of Learning have been supported by multiple grantors and organizations over the years. "I wish to thank everyone who has helped in this important work," states Sakena. "I want to share with each and every contributor the joy of seeing a young woman, who has a renewed interest in life because she can now read, or the happiness of a widow who has learned a skill that will allow her to support her children.
"We now have children who are healthy because of inoculations, and women who did not die during childbirth who have happy, healthy babies. My wish is that these small steps that allow awareness and growth in families will lead to the growth of our country."
Recently, we spoke with Sakena, and she has this message to all the supporters of AIL:
"It is an honor to be included in Nicholas' and Sheryl's book Half The Sky. So many foundations and individuals have contributed to the work that the Afghan Institute of Learning has been able to do in Afghanistan.
"From the bottom of my heart I want to thank all who have understood the plight of Afghan women and children, and have reached out with compassionate, caring support.
"May God reward your generosity......."
Sakena
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