Help Afghan Boys Trade Guns for Books

Dear Friends,

AIL has always included males in its programs. Males need the quality healthcare that AIL provides, they also need the health education.  On the education side, Learning Centers (LCs) provide places for boys to catch up on their schooling so they can reenter school at the right grade level. In 2016, 8,398 males attended LCs under AIL management in Herat and Kabul Province and Peshawar, Pakistan. AIL always operates to provide what the local community requests and so some of the LCs are for men/boys only including at a boys orphanage.  One such center is for street children and has 108 male students who are taking 9 month course in literacy, math and English.

Another is a computer center in Kabul which has 16 male students who study computing and are currently concentrating on MS Word. The teacher recently changed the time of the course to be more convenient for the students who are also in school. A Kabul center manager said, “AIL provides great opportunity for Afghan people, you should gain great benefits from this opportunity.  In other courses you pay fees and learn, but AIL provides free courses to all people.” One of the students said, “My name is Hewad, I am a student of the computer course. I have finished the Access program and I am now in the 14^th grade. After finishing this course I want to be a teacher in one of the schools. I have learned computer programs in a perfect way from this Learning Center. I am thankful for AIL office for providing this opportunity.”

Thank you for supporting this project which helps boys stay healthy and gain education, which changes their lives for the better.