While designing and implementing our projects we seek to meet the demands of Afghan women in the sphere of education so that they become full-fledged members of the society. By educating girls, we reintegrate them into the socio-economic life of their country.

We finance the construction and running of schools for girls as well as open a health education centre in each of them where girls and their mothers receive basic training on maternal and children health. We’ve established three kindergartens where teachers’ children are being looked after while they are giving classes. One of the kindergartens is open to all children of the community. Respecting the importance of having libraries in the pedagogical process, we opened five libraries in each of the following schools : Malalaï, Qabezan, Bibi Amina, Qolbakh and Tawakh. We support these places wishing they can become a space where our students can discover the pleasure of reading and where all might develop their abilities asreaders, students or teachers.

The health education centers allow us to achieve our second goal: to provide Afghan women with information about hygiene and family planning which is still lacking in the country leaving it at the bottom of the global ranks in terms of maternal and child mortality. With the launch of the project on psychosocial care provision to Afghan women and their families, we are seeking to meet the immense demand for the alleviation of various psychological disorders plaguing the Afghan population that has survived more than three decades of war.

Finally, we seek to offer Afghan women an access to self-fulfilling activities such as visual expression through photography, reading of women’s magazine ROZ; or to access sports activities.

Geographical area of action

• The region of the Panshir valley, the village of Hannaba and its surroundings
• The district of Paghman, the province of Kabul, 30 km west of the capital

Since 2001, we constantly support three schools (one in the valley of Panjshir and two in the Paghman district) as well as five other schools based on their needs. We are currently implementing a project that will allow us and our partners – mainly Smiling Children in the framework of our program “School in the Box – Advancing Girls’ Education in Afghanistan” – to extend our support to twelve schools in total by 2014.

Beneficiaries of our actions

Young girls are the main beneficiaries of our projects since we struggle to see them become autonomous in their private and professional lives. Therefore, educating and developing their skills is our principal goal, as they can be change-factors for future generations. We understand that their autonomy and self-sufficiency cannot be achieved without offering them access to health care. Therefore,  we instruct them on how to take responsibility of their health and that of their children. Thus, we aim for a snow-ball effect so that each member of their family becomes an indirect beneficiary of our actions. Underprivileged women, widows and vulnerable women, also count as our main beneficiaries.