Literacy Classes & Books for Afghan Women & Girls

***There are only a few days left to donate in 2021! We would love your support for our projects. Thank you!***

Despite the difficulties faced by people in Afghanistan, AIL’s programs have kept functioning throughout 2021. A new English book was published by the Sakena Yacoobi English Center, 100 new books in English were added to the center library, 50 new books for TV and 100 new books for the Yacoobi High Schools were distributed.

Children who cannot attend a formal education class and do not have reading material at home can access books and spend time in the AIL libraries. Keeping education going, in whatever form, is vital for the long term development of young people and their future opportunities in life. 

Update on health clinics:  Our clinics are stretched to capacity and beyond with thousands of displaced people adding to the usual patient numbers. There is a shortage of medicines and of the Covid vaccine.  We have hundreds of people camping outside our facilities but we lack enough food, vitamins, Ensure and Pedialyte to help everyone who needs it. We desperately need funding, food supplements, clean water, hygiene supplies and Covid vaccines.  We plan to open two new health clinics in 2022 to help address the need.

AIL Outreach 2021: 23,905 students, 18,132 PPE distributed, 6 health clinics, 50-bed Covid-19 hospital, 95,593 patient treatments, 59,888 health education, 13,050 food aid families served, 22 radio broadcasts daily, 8 hours of TV programs, 12 provinces reached. 

Thank you for your support for education and reading in Afghanistan.       

Recent Developments in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been stunned by recent developments and people are adapting as best they can, to a new situation which remains both unclear and uncertain as to the future.  AIL’s current priority is to provide urgently needed assistance to the thousands of displaced families who have flooded into Kabul and Herat. Some centers provide a staging point for aid. Our staff are all working, though offices currently are men only with women working from home. The centers are all female and await instructions from the Taliban with regard to procedures required for reopening centers to our students. Our clinics have expanded their capacity to cope with the large numbers of refugees that are in the area.

The Yacoobi private schools are open and operating under the rules that have been given such as dividing male and female. It is exam season and students are studying hard and sitting their exams as usual. It is a great credit to them and their teachers as everyone has heightened levels of fear, stress and anxiety. The private TV and Radio Meraj are not broadcasting but awaiting instructions in how to recommence and staff are creating content and archiving materials for broadcast at a later date.

We have been touched by the outreach of support and outpouring of donations to help the Afghan people. We thank you for standing by Afghanistan as it faces another humanitarian crisis on top of Covid-19 and drought. 

AIL regularly publishes books and manuals distributing them to Learning Centers and schools. AIL has various teacher training manuals which are kept up to date and are available to its teachers at centers and to anyone who has been trained as a teacher by AIL. Quality teaching is the bedrock of a quality education for a child. AIL provides books to its students whenever possible and through maintaining libraries at centers and schools. 

Thanks for your support.