medica Afghanistan

Project:Empowering Afghan women and girls through literacy training
Partner: medica mondiale Afghanistan
Location: six districts in Kabul

Canadian Donor Support: US$18,000; twelve months

The European NGO, medica modialle, supports traumatised women and girls in war and crisis zones such as Afghanistan. Afghan women who suffer from the mental or physical consequences of sexualised and other forms of violence benefit from individual and group counseling. As part of the programs for these counseling sessions, Afghan women are being provided with basic literacy classes as part of their recovery program.

This project will expand these literacy classes to cover six Kabul districts and will offer classes for 20 women and girls in each district, with a total of 120 women benefitting directly from this training. medica mondiale will hire three female teachers to conduct the literacy classes which are taught in accordance with the curriculum from the Education Ministry of Afghanistan.  The lessons will include learning the Dari alphabet, reading and writing of numbers, composition of simple sentences, as well as basic rights and hygiene.

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