Noor Education Centre (NEC)

Partner: Noor Education Centre
Project: Nazo Annah Library and Internet Cafe
Location: Kabul
Canadian Donor Support*: US$60,000 per annum

The Nazo Annah Library and Internet Cafe is part of the Noor Education Centre (NEC). NEC was founded by Afghan youth and is designed to enable and empower young women through literacy and education. The centre is located near to the Kabul University and utilized by many male and female students and residents in the region.

NEC programmes 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 NEC-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 a small community library in the province of Ghazni.

CW4WAfghan wish to acknowledge support of the Alberta Government WildRose Foundation of a grant in the amount of $25,000 in both 2007 and 2008 which helps to leverage the funds raised from Alberta residents.