Help Afghans Learn Computing and Coding

Dear Friends,

In 2015, AIL Learning Centers taught 3,276 students computing skills which will be invaluable when they seek jobs in the local economy.  The classes are always popular and AIL frequently receives requests from individuals and its 43 centers for these classes.

Here is an inspiring story from one of those students, “There was a boy who used to live in a village with his family and although his parents were not educated people, they encouraged their children to study. In their village there was a school which was not of a high standard and the teachers were not experienced. So the parents wanted their son to study in the city school even though they were poor so their son started studying in the city school so he could get a good education and become a highly capable person. The boy attended AIL’s  English and computer class after school. After graduating from school he went back to his village and opened his own learning center and started teaching English and computing to earn a living and because he wanted to change the lives of youth in his community.”

What a difference good education makes in a life! Not only education but opportunity to learn modern marketable skills. Thank you for contributing to our work helping equip young people with skills they can use to make a better life for themselves and their communities.

Please read the attached CHI 2015 Newsletter featuring AIL for information on activities last year.

• CHI_Newsletter_2015.pdf (PDF)
  

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Dear Friends,

It's Giving Tuesday! We would love your suppport!

AIL is helping move Afghanistan towards being a modern society providing opportunity to many who live in disadvantaged circumstances. Here is an example of a boy living in a rural situation in Farza District he said, “First of all, I want to thank AIL for giving us this opportunity. My father is farmer and I am also working with him but I wished to study computers. At this center computer is taught without charging any fee. I like this course very much.  Secondly, our economic situation is not good and I couldn’t pay fees for university. As AIL is working always to improve youth I request that AIL start a university with low fees so that we could continue our education.”

A small amount of education opens minds and gives young people hope so they aspire to learn more, become more accomplished and contribute more to the society.  Without AIL this young man’s interest in computers would have been extinguished and he would have had few opportunities beyond the subsistence farming of his father. The skills he is gaining at the center will not only change his life but that of his parents as he will be able to offer them support once he gains employment. Girls too, are keen to learn computing and put that skill to good use in the workforce.

Thank you for helping young people change their lives.