Fast Track Education for Afghan Women and Girls

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One of the fast- track classes offered at learning centers is literacy. AIL has 8 levels of literacy class and mobile literacy.  In one month, there were 681 literacy students in Herat centers and 179 at Kabul centers with an additional 130 students in Mobile Literacy Class.

Other fast-track classes include sewing and in one month Herat had 1,245 sewing students and in Kabul centers there were 270 students.

Computing classes can also be fast-tracked for the ablest students. In Kabul in one month there were 301 students and in Herat 138 including, 61 female.

A couple of months ago the staff were delighted to attend the graduation ceremony for the computer class at one of the Daikundi Province learning centers.  The manager said, “One hundred students received their certificates of achievement and all were very appreciative of the through grounding in computing skills that they had received. AIL started this center 10 years ago and thousands of students have graduated from it with a range of employable skills.”

One student said, “Students are happy to learn computing and most have gained practical work skills in computing. My classmate does computer printing works in the city of Nili of the province and is paid enough that he supports himself and helps his elderly father.”

Fast-tracking education classes helps those who are doing well to progress at their own pace and complete courses earlier than other students.

Thank you for your support for our education initiatives.

AIL tailors its programs to the needs of participants, so for those women who can learn quickly or have more time to apply to their studies, there is the fast-track option. Education classes have fast track options such as sewing, English, and computing.

AIL also puts on workshops on a variety of subjects such as reproductive health, leadership, good governance and first aid. Some of these workshops are in depth and go on for 5 days such as the full reproductive health workshop. A fast option is the Expectant Mother Workshop which condenses information into one 3- hour session providing information to mothers and their caregivers about pregnancy, birth and newborn care.

Recently, a first aid course was held for 80 students at the Yacoobi High School. The course was adapted to fit with the students’ timetables and covered a lot of subjects including: basic principles of first aid, first for wounds, shock, burns, head, neck and eye injuries, bones, muscles and joints and CPR, what to do for intoxication, strokes, electric shock, drowning, animal bits, control of infection, street safety, blood donations, and burying dead bodies.  The students now feel able to work as volunteer health workers.

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