Afghan Institute of Learning Empowers Afghan Women

Summary

AIL works to empower Afghans by expanding their educational and health opportunitites and by fostering self-reliance and community participation. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Afghan women and children had no access to education for a decade. After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Afghan Institute of Learning organized Educational Learning Centers (ELCs) to bring women life-saving healthcare and education. AIL helps local leaders start ELCs and decide where and what services to offer. AIL has requests for ELCs from many communities that have not historically been open to education for women. AIL now supports 44 ELCs in Afghanistan and refugee camps of Pakistan.

Activities

AIL’s ELCs serve 350,000 women and children each year with medical and reproductive healthcare, health education, skills training, teacher training, leadership/human rights classes, pre-school through post-secondary education, and fast track classes.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £110,928
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £0
Total Funding Goal: £101,812

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Because AIL is run by Afghan women and respectful of Afghan culture, conservative villages trust AIL to begin services for thousands of isolated women in dire need. Other NGOs and the Afghan government now use this model for women’s services.

Project Message

Our eyes are opened. Now we can read and write. Actually, now we have come to know the value of an educated person in a society. We thank AIL for enlightening rural areas with the lights of education.
- Salma, woman in a literacy class in a rural ELC

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Sakena Yacoobi,
Founder & Executive Director
Afghan Institute of Learning
c/o Creating Hope International, PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organisation

Afghan Institute of Learning
Afghan Institute of Learning
c/o CHI, PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
http://www.creatinghope.org/ail

Learn more about Afghan Institute of Learning and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Afghanistan and can also be found under Women and Girls.

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 December 22, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 16, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Expanding Minds

By Toc Dunlap - Executive Director, Creating Hope International, December 22, 2011 11:20 AM

It is so exciting to watch the expansion of women’s thoughts in
Afghanistan. By offering an education to them, their thirst for
knowledge just keeps growing. At every village that AIL is invited
into to start a program or offer a workshop, we see the women
requesting more and more information. They consistently ask for other
workshops and seminars to be made available to them – and to others in
their communities.

It appears that once you offer a person a chance to become literate –
they just want to continue learning. These women in the AIL learning
centers request more classes including skill classes such as sewing,
computers, calligraphy, painting, drawing – and subject classes such
as English, science and math. In addition, as word spreads about
leadership seminars, AIL receives more and more requests to offer
their programs in more communities. These women want to improve their
lives and their communities and see their Country flourish.

Thank you for supporting these women!

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