Gender Equality Afghanistan Project #1155

Fast Track Education for Afghan Women and Girls

by Afghan Institute of Learning

Project Report | Mar 5, 2014
Teaching Women to Read, Opening New Worlds

By Alison Hendry | Program Administrator

Preparing for a Mobile Literacy Class

Hi everyone! First of all we would like to thank you for your generous support of AIL’s Fast-Tracking program. Thanks to your donations, over 300 girls took part in our new mobile literacy classes since September. Many thousands more have recently begun taking literacy classes in AIL flex-time classes (where they can learn at their own pace) and accelerated classes where students can learn to read in a faster-paced environment than offered in traditional school settings. Fast-track classes are offered in all subjects, allowing students to learn however fast they want so as to accommodate to busy schedules and the pace they can effectively learn, all while maintaining the same high-quality instruction as other more traditional classes.

Fariba is a 30-year old mother. She could not go to school as a child because she was a refugee during the war. She enrolled in one of AIL’s mobile literacy courses and is close to graduating from the class. She had this to say about the fast-tracking education program:

“I am very happy about my participation in this class. My classmates and I benefit from the countless advantages of the class. The majority of the students were uneducated at the beginning of the class, including me, but now we have become literate. We didn’t know the letters of the alphabet. Now that we are finishing the class, we can see a lot of changes in ourselves. I can read books and magazines now when I couldn’t a few months ago. I write some topics now, when before the class I couldn’t even write the alphabet’s letters. I know all of us are improving day by day. This is an excellent class.”

We would like to thank you so much for your support of the Fast-Tracking Education program. Without supporters like you, we couldn’t have accomplished what we have or what we plan to do in the future. Thank you!!

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Dec 5, 2013
In their words...

By Alison Hendry | Program Administrator

Nov 6, 2013
Thank you from AIL!

By Lucas VanAtta | Administrative Assistant

Dear GlobalGiving Donors,

Thank you so much for supporting the Afghan Institute of Learning’s (AIL) various projects on GlobalGiving. Over the years, the Global Giving donors have become invaluable to AIL. Through your generous support, AIL has been able to provide Afghans with education, health care, training and more.

It is your continued support that is now allowing AIL to evolve along with the young people of Afghanistan. We’d like to share with you the story of how one young woman’s life has been changed thanks to one of AIL’s programs:

I am a 19-year-old woman with two children. I had always wanted to go to school and learn to read, but there was not a school close to my home. It was not safe for me to try and travel to another village to go to school, but I always told myself that if I could go to school, I would be able to get a job and reach my goals.

It was painful to me when my brother learned to read and write, but I couldn’t. One day I watched some women and children who were going somewhere. When I saw that one of them was a woman who had an 8-year-old girl with her, I stopped her and said “Excuse me. Where are you going?” She answered, “A learning center has been established for illiterate women and their children recently. I am going to register myself and my children.”

When I heard this, I was so happy and I said to her, “Please wait a minute. I want to go with you and start to take classes too.” I joined them on their way to the learning center. When we arrived, I was so excited because I saw a lot of women there who had been learning.

Now, I can read and write and I can say proudly that I am literate. I have also learned to be healthy and to be a leader. I am reaching out and touching my wishes and goals. I thank AIL for this opportunity to reach my goals.

Thank you for the support that you give to AIL. We are so grateful to all of our supporters for their continued support of our projects on GlobalGiving. Thank you!

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