Literacy Classes & Books for Afghan Women & Girls

The two projects below receive 50% Match from Safer World Fund so your gift will be worth 50% more.

1073 Save Afghan Women and Children with Health care

1155 Fast Track Education for Afghan Women and Girls 

AIL is always looking for ways to increase literacy among Afghan women. It offers classes in reading and writing, publishes a magazine and supports or provides libraries. Another way is through book publishing and recently the book, Focus of Thought, was published by AIL. 

This slim volume of 124 pages is aimed to help people to focus and therefore be more effective. The chapters include principles of concentration, concentration in reading, working and positive thinking as well as senses in the classroom. Reading is good for the individual but concentration in reading and in life is better, being in the moment helps us to be effective, alert, empathetic and aware of others.  At the book presentation all the attendees received a copy and AIL hopes to get copies to all its offices and Learning Centers. 

Here is a story from one of the LC libraries, “I am a student of English at an AIL learning center. I am a school girl as well. My teachers at school gave me projects to search for. Fortunately I find lots of good books in the library at the AIL center which I can use as references. I study in this library and borrow some books to work on my projects. I also help my classmates to study and search on their projects. I am recommending my friends use this library.” 

Thank you for your continued support for this vital educational resource, books! 

Special Opportunity to increase the impact of your year end gift!

The two projects below receive 50% Match from Safer World Fund so your gift will be worth 50% more.

1073 Save Rural Afghan Women and Children with Healthcare

1155 Fast-Tracking Education for Afghan Women and Girls

As the year draws to a close we reflect on what we have done and how this has changed lives for the better. AIL’s Learning Centers (LCs) give women the opportunity to learn, to network with other women and to gain both knowledge and capacity. This year, 23,054 students (15,474 female) have attended 6 month courses at 43 LCs mainly in Herat and Kabul locations

Stories are the best way for us to show how you help poor Afghans improve their lives and communities. Here is one of our favorites from the year:  A student said, "In my opinion the first and best thing that youth need to do is to transform ourselves and then to transform the community. This way we will be able to motivate society and our country toward development and a more prosperous future.

Everybody needs knowledge and perception in order to have a good life. We have learned that studying and reading books is “a light in the path of life”. Our countrymen spend less time on reading and studying useful topics than people in developed countries. This is one of the common reasons why our people lack academic awareness.

Our teacher tells us that a society develops when its people develop two habits, exercise and reading books. In this class we understand the purpose of reading books. Every month we read, summarize and present one book in front of the class. We have been doing this for a year. Now reading has become one of our daily habits. If I don't read some pages during the day, I feel like I have lost something." 

Thank you for your continued support for this vital educational resource, books!  Please read the 2017 Newsletter from CHI featuring AIL. 

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