Help Educate Women & Girls in Afghanistan

Thank you so much for your donation to Sahar. Your ongoing support means the world to our work and most especially the Afghan girls we serve. I’ve included pictures of our girls so you can put a visual with your support! These last couple of months have been busy at Sahar: 

Early Marriage Prevention - We are now working in two additional schools in our pilot program and establishing elements of the curriculum to include broader participation of mothers and fathers. Afghanistan has one of the highest mother mortality rates in the the world - in large part due to early marriage, lack of education, and lack of acess to adequate medical care. Sahar continues to work with communities to increase educational opportunities for Afghan girls. 

Computer Coding - We continue to work with 20 girls in our coding project, a six month module. The girls were chosen from a competitive pool out of our computer centers; they were the ones who showed the most positive baseline skill base to take on the next level of coding. We have now finished two months of the coding project - things are going well and we can see students working on developing some small preliminary websites as practice.

Your contribution is making a difference on the global scale, too! In Paul Hawken's book "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming", Paul measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, the book describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. And guess what's in the top ten solutions? That's right, "Educating Girls".

"Educated girls realize higher wages and greater upward mobility, contributing to economic growth. Their rates of maternal mortality drop, as do mortality rates of their babies. They are less likely to marry as children or against their will. They have lower incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria. Their agricultural plots are more productive and their families better nourished.

Education also shores up resilience and equips girls and women to face the impacts of climate change. They can be more effective stewards of food, soil, trees, and water, even as nature’s cycles change. They have greater capacity to cope with shocks from natural disasters and extreme weather events." -Paul Hawken (http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/women-and-girls/educating-girls)

Thank you for supporting Afghan girls and girls' education!