Noor Education Community Development Organization (NECDO)
Partner: Noor Education Centre
Project: Nazo Annah Library and Internet Cafe
Location: Kabul
Canadian Donor Support: US$13,000 per annum
The Nazo Annah Library and Internet Cafe is part of the Noor Education Communty Development Organization (NECDO). NECDO was founded by Afghan youth and is designed to enable and empower young women through literacy and education. NECDO programs include awareness-raising in gender, human rights, and children's rights issues; english, literacy, health and Quranic education classes; vocational training and special classes such as sign language and other programs for disabled women.
This library is an information center for students, particularly women and girls, to enable and empower youth and teenage girls to understand their rights in a democratic Afghan civil society. The NECDO Library acts as a resource centre for all library users within the community, provides a community meeting place for teachers, all members and their parents, offers regular Dari and English language classes, and Internet and computer classes.
Donor funds also support a portion of the staff salary and resources at two small community libraries in the provinces of Ghazni and Nangarhar.
In total the project will have 5093 direct beneficiaries as the followings: 3700 library members in Kabul, 690 members in Ghazni & 700 members in Jalalabad. Three female staff members will have one year earnings and 300 children will be benefited from the child day activities, two days a week. (2011 statistics)
CW4WAfghan wishes to acknowledge support from the Alberta Government through their WildRose Foundation (2008 - $25,000 and 2009 - $25,000) and the Community Spirit Program (2010 - $16,000) which has helped our volunteers to leverage the funds raised from Alberta residents. This is the maximum eligible grants for one civil society organization so CW4WAfghan Project Management Team are seeking alternative grant programs to support this and other projects. Please email info@cw4wafghan.ca if you have any advice in this regard to help identify sustainable support for our projects and to match our donor fundraising.
