By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
Dear Friends,
When a community asks for AIL to set up a Learning Center (LC) it is a requirement that the community are supportive of the idea both theoretically and practically. Only with community involvement will these poor, uneducated people be able to achieve success in learning new skills. Center request what they want and can support, some immediately want modern skills in the program such as computing. Here is the story of how one community supported its center and its people in 2016.
“One of the local people who lives near the center is called Khalil. He has helped the center a lot. The center did not have a telephone line and we had internet problems so Khalil voluntarily gave his house phone line to the center and helped by holding internet classes and seminars and these continue today. Another man named Naser who has a house on the same road has helped too. He offered to put the course’s advertisement board on the roof of his home because it would be seen more easily. The board is still there today. One of the other neighbors allowed the center to use his house's wall as a board and to advertise its programs. Other families gifted useful informative books in Arabic to help students learn the language.
This is truly a community effort! This operational approach is what creates sustainable opportunity for males and females to learn modern world skills such as computing which will help them find work. In 2016, 2,044 students were able to attend computer classes in Kabul LCs. In the month of December, Herat LCs had 304 students continuing their computer studies.
Please read our year end newsletter attached. Thank you for being part of the support for these centers and the students who rely on them.
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