Education key to Afghanistan’s future16/09/2011 - 1:18:33 PMVANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 24, 2011/ Troy Media/ – When I first visited Afghanistan, not long after the...
ALAINA PODMOROW. Working tirelessly to educate young women in Afghanistan, BC teen Alaina Podmorow stands out from inspiring group of teen philanthropists
December 6, 2011 As Canadians honour the memories of women lost to violence here at home on the occasion of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Canadian Wome
A new partnership has been initiated between the Linda Norgrove Foundation (UK) and Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (CW4WAfghan) to launch the Village Literacy Centres and
As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, and an increasingly skeptical international community looks to the future of Afghanistan with one eye on the exit, the women of this war-weary country ha
When Lauryn Oates started raising money to send women in Afghanistan to school, she wasn’t sure they would ever emerge from the underground classrooms that kept them hidden from the threat of t
CBS recently aired its expose of Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute on 60 Minutes, alleging significant financial mismanagement at the organization, falsehoods in Mortenson's two bestselling book