Fast-Tracking Education for Afghan Women and Girls

Summary

Provide literacy and fast-track education to thousands of women and girls who were deprived of learning by the Taliban and are now eager to become literate and learn skills at an accelerated pace progress report read updates from the field

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	£6 - One girl has books and school supplies for one fast-track class.
	£31 - 600 women have fast-track class teachers for one day.
	£41 - One woman learns to read and write in a literacy class.
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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. The ELCs also give women and girls an opportunity to learn skills such as tailoring and embroidery on a fast track basis so that they use these skills to support themselves and their families. Once literate, women are now requesting classes in English, computer, drawing and painting.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £53,882
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £0
Total Funding Goal: £50,651

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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

Thousands of women and girls will become literate. Many will choose to further their education on a fast-track basis and some will mainstream into government schools at age-appropriate grade levels. Understanding the value of education, women will encourage and support their children, especially girls, to study. As their minds open, women begin to understand how they can be leaders and bring changes in their community.

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

Contact

Sakena Yacoobi,
Founder & Executive Director
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
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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 12, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 01, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Changing Lives of Women and Communities

By Sakena Yacoobi - Executive Director of AIL, December 12, 2011 12:24 PM

So many women and girls lives are being changed by the fast track classes that the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) offers in its learning centers. This year alone we had 10,577 students in our fast track classes and 7,494 of them were women and girls.

So much has changed since we started our fast track classes for women and girls in 2002 in Afghanistan. Then women wanted to learn to read and write and to learn tailoring and other skills. Women are still coming to us for those classes but those who have become literate are now asking for much more. They are studying English, learning how to use computers and communicating with others around the world through the internet. They are asking for other classes that enrich their lives such as painting, calligraphy, drawing and miniature painting. They want to learn more about such subjects as math and physics. And, because they are now educated and are finding their voices, they are asking for leadership workshops so that they can be active in the communities where they live. When students ask, AIL finds a teacher and starts a class. The women and girls are still studying at their own pace but, thanks to you, they are building on what they have learned and expanding their knowledge and skills. Most importantly, they are using what they have learned to make positive changes in their families and in their communities.

Thank you for all of your donations throughout the years!!!

And, if you or your family and friends are giving to us this December, remember that your gift will still receive 50% matching funds from the Safer World Fund.

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