Help Peace Winds Bring Hope to Girls in Afghanistan by Voting for our Education Project!
Peace Winds began providing emergency assistance immediately after the 2001 conflict in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, building schools, repairing roads, digging wells, and supporting higher incomes for women. Since 2018, in collaboration with local NGOs in Nangarhar Province, Peace Winds has provided emergency assistance to returnees, residents affected by drought, and households in hard-to-reach areas.
Now, Peace Winds needs your help to win increased funding to support education for girls in the area.
With only 11 classrooms for 1,655 students, Agam Girls’ School in Nangarhar Province is overcrowded, and hundreds of girls from elementary through high school are forced to take classes sitting outside on plastic tarps. Not only does this make learning difficult in the scorching heat of the summer and approaching winter cold, but classes are often canceled due to rain and other extreme weather conditions.
Along with our local partner, Your Voice Organization, Peace Winds is working to establish temporary classrooms using tents at Agam Girls’ School. The tents will be equipped with carpeting so that girls are not forced to sit on the hard ground, and one tent will be stocked with books to serve students as a library.
As part of the “Felissimo Global Village Fund,” the more votes this project receives through November 14, the more funding it will be awarded! See the photo below to learn how to vote in just three easy steps.
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Agam Girls’ School is located in Pachir Agam District, a particularly steep mountainous area of Nangarhar Province. Pachir Agam has been a region of intense conflict since the Soviet invasion in the 1970s until recently, and many men have died as a result, leaving households with only women. Additionally, there are residents of Pachir Agam District who have been left disabled, and children have long been deprived of their education after schools were destroyed or occupied for military purposes.
Girls’ education was further hindered when the Taliban took power in 2021 and banned girls over the age of junior high school from attending. Fortunately, fighting in the area has now ended, and Taliban authorities have agreed to support a safe learning environment for school girls.
The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to receive an education.” Peace Winds knows that learning becomes difficult when children do not have access to a safe and comfortable learning environment, so improving the classroom setting for students at Agam Girls’ School is of the utmost importance. We thank you for your support and look forward to continuing to bring updates as we support Nangarhar Province.