Support Education for Marginalized Kabul Children

Doctors, teachers, pilots, and policemen. These are some of the professions cited by the street children attending our school. With your continued support, we can help these children, and others to realise their aspirations and lead a happy life.

Sadly, these children currently work long hours in adverse conditions to provide for their families, with as little as some bread, or nothing, to sustain them. They face discrimination from others on a daily basis. Our school offers hope amongst the hardship, and a chance for the children to break the cycle of poverty.

In addition to teaching the children literacy and numeracy skills, and providing them with a nutritious meal, we have now incorporated creative tasks and physical activity into the schooling program. Last week, the children took part in their first creative task – kite-making. From April, the children will receive football training with a coach. We believe that providing activities such as these is essential to support the children’s physical and mental well-being, and will enable them to flourish.

Currently, there are 59 street children attending our school. By the end of 2018, we hope to have at least 150 students. We plan to recruit a mobilizer, who will approach more children in the street, and we may expand our search to more neighbourhoods. Ultimately, we plan to work with the families to reintroduce the street children back into the formal school system. We will educate the families on the risks related to street work, and on the importance of education. We need to engage the children’s families to help break the cycle of poverty.

We would like to thank you for the support you have given to our project, and we hope that you can continue to support our efforts to make a difference to the lives of children.

Warm wishes,

The team at AfD

Links:

• http://www.action-for-development.org/index.php/en/street-children-back-to-school/