Afghan Women/Girls reach 4th Grade Literacy

Dear Friends,

Communities frequently request the innovative Mobile Literacy Class for their centers. So far in 2016 there have been 6  four month long classes for 181 people including 150 females. 5 classes finished at the end of July and we will be getting results soon. Of the 181 students 97 started without knowing the alphabet,  56  knew the alphabet but could not read and  28 read at a first grade level.  We look forward to sharing the students’ success next time.

Here is one student’s story: “I am BiBi Zakia and I am a housewife.  When I first came to this class I did not know about the alphabet. Now here in this class I learnt all the letters of alphabet. I can make sentences and can type the words and sentences into the mobile phone and send to my friends, my teacher and the manager of the center . I can get responses from them. My family lives in Ghazni province, because the cost of calling is high I send messages to them. I am not so young, I thought my mind will not work and I will not learn , but now I know I am  intelligent , I can read and write my homework into notebook.  My teacher checks my notebook and signs it . I am so happy and thankful from AIL office for proving this opportunity. I request from my sisters who are illiterate, please join this Learning Center and seek knowledge.”

Thank you for your support.

Dear Friends, 

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The AIL education program is going well and classes are being held at 43 Learning Centers (LCs) in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including 15 rural centers around Herat.  A diverse range of subjects are offered (though not at every center) including: math, literacy, Arabic, English, sewing, miniature painting, computers and physics. So far 13,888 students (including 9,044 females and 4,844 males) participated in Learning Center education.

There are 150 females in 4 month long mobile literacy classes which will fast track their literacy education. Here is a story, " My name is Najeela and we have a poor economic situation. I was not interested in education because I  thought I am too old now and I thought that it is impossible to start studying at this age. But after joining Mobile Literacy Class I got that I was wrong and we can start studying in any age. In these two months I can now write sentences and also send it through texting. Now I want to start school after completing this course and I want to thank AIL for this opportunity."

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