Help Afghans Learn Computing and Coding

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12 students are working in teams on apps to use as entries in this year’s Technovation Challenge. This contest is for girls and encourages them to get involved in coding and the world of computing. The girls are 14 years old.

Team one has two students and they are creating an app called Music Club that uses Afghan musical instruments and is part academic and part cultural education.

Team two has four students and their app is called Keep Clean and provides information on how to keep the environment clean. It is useful for all people and is especially aimed at the primary school aged children so they will learn from an early age about being responsible for the environment.

Team three has 4 students and their app provides information of what to do before, during and after an earthquake.

The team mentor said, "The groups are working on class activities like business plans, presentations, pitch videos and  demos. They will upload their work on the Technovation Challenge site and compete online this year. They are inspired by last year's suceess when our team won first place for the whole of Afghanistan." 

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Many of AIL’s  44 Learning Centers (LCs) provide Computing Classes, which are always popular with the young and with older students too.  In the first part of the year, there were 604 computer students including 308 in Herat (166 female, 144 adolescent girls) and 296 in the Kabul area.

One Kabul center is exclusively for computer classes for boys.  The manager of the LC  had this to say, “This center is the only one in the area which provides good facilities for free . The families let their children  join the course, because they do not need to pay and it will help their children learn a useful skill and in the future they could earn their living with this. Most of our graduates have joined  banks, companies and government ministries. For example,  Abdul, one of our graduates is a computer teacher in a village. Another student, Farooq is  a computer teacher in Aqa Sarai Klakan District and Zubir has started his own computer and photoshop  business in the bazaar. They admire AIL’s team and Dr. Sakena Yacoobi’s hard work, and they said that AIL has an important role in their success and in starting their careers.”

Computing skills change lives and provide economic opportunity to boys and men. Thank you for your support!