Education

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Education

Access to Education: How We Did It

This article is part of a broader series exploring changes regarding access to education in Afghanistan, created with support from Afghan Witness (a project of the Centre for Information Resilience), which uses open-source investigating to expose human rights violations and counter mis- and disinformation. This series will incorporate open-source techniques

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Books, a Refuge in War

On December 23rd, the Qanadeel Cultural Forum inaugurated the El-Daein Library, housed in the El-Daein Cultural Club. The library opened with more than 1,100 books gifted to the program by Stella Gaetano, an author born in Khartoum who is now a citizen of South Sudan.

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Education Leaves Disabled Behind

Afghans face many barriers to accessing education, from lack of schools to poverty or family and social biases. However, disability is one of the worst as it can prevent Afghan youth from overcoming even the most simple barriers.

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No Education for the Displaced

Sustained conflict in Afghanistan over the last four decades has repeatedly forced Afghans to flee their homes, either internally displaced, or migrate to other countries. The displacement, and migration, caused countless children to leave school, most often for good.

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Rural Villages Get First Schools

The Taliban are building schools across Afghanistan, in communities where no school existed before. While their policies on education have been criticized, this is a positive step. Yet the scale of the need is vast, and challenges remain.

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Deprived of Education by War and Poverty

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Long Walks for Little Learning

The long distance from villages to schools remains one of the main barriers to schooling across Afghanistan, especially in rural areas with less access to essential services, including education.

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Culture Keeps Girls Ignorant

Afghan female baker Bibi Gul is the second in three generations of women in her family deprived of education documented for this story. Plucked out of school in 6th grade, she struggles to accept the same fate for her daughters.

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Taliban Approve Academy for Women

A woman in southwestern Nimroz province has established an education facility offering courses in computer science, religious studies, and English. This initiative aims to provide educational opportunities for women and girls barred from seeking education above 6th grade.

Press Release

Education, Still Out of Reach for Most Afghans

Today we’ve published our first article with the support of Afghan Witness, “Education, an Afghan Conundrum” examines how religious and cultural biases prevented many women from going to school in the period before the first Taliban government. In the coming weeks and months, we will investigate where schools are

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Education, an Afghan Conundrum

They were told school is not for them, that it’s bad for a girl to seek education, and were made to sit at home at a young age. Now, these Afghan women above 40 years in age share accounts of their crushed hopes.

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Illiterate Among the Literate

Baba Zareef’s dream of being educated was quashed at 11 with his father arrested. At 67, he now works as a janitor at a local school, a place he once hoped would change his life for the better.

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Community of Hazaras Living Among Pashtuns

A small community of Hazaras lives peacefully in Garmser, a Pashtun-dominated district of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Residents of the village talk of the strong relationship between the two ethnic groups.

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Decades of Illiteracy; The Generations That Have Been Forgotten

Generations have gone without the opportunity to seek education in Abi, an area in Chora district of Afghanistan’s Orguzgan province. In addition to that, no health centers exist in the area, exasperating the issues people in this area face on a daily basis.

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A Hope For Afghan Children

Afghan businessman opens two learning centers serving 1,000 underprivileged children in his home province of Logar. The schools are located in areas where none existed before.

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Child Farmer Dreams of School

Written by Sabawoon Ahmadi ZARTALAY, GHOR— Muhammad Asif is a 12 year-old child farmer from Zartalay, a village located 45 kilometers south of Firozkoh, the capital of Afghanistan’s western Ghor province. Since he was six, Muhammad has been spent each year working alongside his father, Hamed. The boy spends

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Maktab: This School is Always Open

A mobile distance learning application emerged as a lifeline for Afghan girls and women who were prohibited from pursuing education after the Taliban's takeover of the country in August 2021.

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An Education, If You Can Afford It

Special needs children are the most vulnerable and neglected group in Afghanistan. Essential facilities, particularly access to education, are severely lacking, adding to their struggle.

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Teacher, At All Costs

Teacher Daniel Ndihokubwayo walks 2.5 hours to and from ECOFO Banda Primary School located in the western province of Bubanza in Burundi because of his passion for teaching.

Diary

A Deep Love for Children, Crushed

Couple Sara Jafari and Rasool Fallah created a daycare center aimed at providing a nurturing and loving environment for children until the rug pulled from under their feet, leaving them lost and hopeless.

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Her Studio is Her Whole World

Diba Naseri’s world and her place of imagination is the tiny room she spends her time painting in. She is happy when she is painting, and nothing, not even the errors and mistakes in those paintings can take her out of her happy place.

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Camels Leave No Time for Tea

Camel herder Habibullah Baloch spends at least half a year herding the animals in the deserts of southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province.

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Villager Establishes His Own School

Abdul Qader saw no educational facilities upon return to his hometown of Qader Khan, a village in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. So he took it upon himself to open one.

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The Lifeline of Families Carried by Children

Water scarcity has been a problem for many years across Afghanistan. In Kandahar children as young as four carry water delivered by tankers to their households on a daily basis.

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A Free Library for Women to Learn

A female-owned library in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul recently opened its doors hoping it could provide a space for girls barred from seeking education to study there.