Help Educate Women & Girls in Afghanistan

Thank you for donating to our project to educate Afghan Girls. Thanks to you, Sahar is able to provide girls with the basics of education as well as unique job training opportunities in computers and conduct workshops of early marriage prevention.

Education may seem like a simple action in a nation ravaged by war for the last several decades, but we have seen tremendous change in the status of girls and women. Providing quality education experiences is about more than just getting more girls into the classroom, it is about empowering them to be free, creative thinkers who can engage in the public discussion of their country’s culture and politics and be respected and heard. We are a long ways off from achieving our goals of gender parity in the Afghanistan education system, but we continue to see tremendous growth in our capability to make this a reality.

Sahar now offers early marriage prevention workshops throughout the year. Since the launch of this pilot project in 2015, we have graduated 625 girls. Our most recent workshop included 26 9th grade girls who heard guest speakers discuss career opportunities for those who stay in school, graduate and delay marriage. The workshops begin with community meetings that include families - especially fathers - religious leaders, the Ministry of Education, principals and community members that are involved in deciding the future of girls. The pilot project is operating in two rural schools. 

We’ve had a total of 2,592 students graduate from our computer centers as of 2016. providing girls with valuable training. The top graduates of the centers will now be eligible to apply for an innovative girls computer coding program that will begin this winter. The program aims to provide the girls with skills that will enable them to work in the computer industry and/or gain entry into a technical training program or university. 

To date, Sahar has built 19 schools, updated 20+ and impacted over 28,000 girls in our schools and programs annually and over 200,000 since our incepton. However, the need for more schools and access to education is still growing. Afghanistan's need for education remains daunting with over 40% of their population school aged children. With your help we can continue to provide these opportunities as we aim to make Afghanistan a safer place through education.