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"Journey with an Afghan School"
"Journey with an Afghan School" is a grassroots project between America and Afghanistan that began just months after 9/11.
Communities from around the country teamed up with Julia Bolz, a social justice activist from Seattle, who started working as a volunteer with other Americans in Afghanistan in January 2002, weeks after the Taliban had been removed from power.
With the support of the Afghan Ministry of Education and the help of Afghan communities, we started to build schools in 2002 using U.S.-based teams in Balkh Province. Over the past eight years, “Journey with an Afghan School” team members have helped build and equip 18 new schools and repair/equip over 20 other schools destroyed by war. They have also maintained each of the schools, provided dozens of water wells and latrines; distributed over 40,000 textbooks, as well as school supplies, office equipment, desks, athletic equipment, and science labs; created libraries and computer centers; provided teacher trainings and curriculum development; and taught courses on life-skills and hygiene. Most recently, they have built and/or supplied two teacher training centers serving several hundred teachers.
Today, the schools serve approximately 25,000 Afghan students, impacting some 175,000 family members. Each of the Afghan schools is secular, teaching classes such as history, math, science, Dari and even English. The classes range from kindergarten through 12th Two-thirds of our students are girls grade.
We are not simply interested in building schools. We want to build bridges of understanding and mutual respect between Afghans and Americans. Each of the Afghan schools is connected to a community in the United States.
Communities from around the country teamed up with Julia Bolz, a social justice activist from Seattle, who started working as a volunteer with other Americans in Afghanistan in January 2002, weeks after the Taliban had been removed from power.
With the support of the Afghan Ministry of Education and the help of Afghan communities, we started to build schools in 2002 using U.S.-based teams in Balkh Province. Over the past eight years, “Journey with an Afghan School” team members have helped build and equip 18 new schools and repair/equip over 20 other schools destroyed by war. They have also maintained each of the schools, provided dozens of water wells and latrines; distributed over 40,000 textbooks, as well as school supplies, office equipment, desks, athletic equipment, and science labs; created libraries and computer centers; provided teacher trainings and curriculum development; and taught courses on life-skills and hygiene. Most recently, they have built and/or supplied two teacher training centers serving several hundred teachers.
Today, the schools serve approximately 25,000 Afghan students, impacting some 175,000 family members. Each of the Afghan schools is secular, teaching classes such as history, math, science, Dari and even English. The classes range from kindergarten through 12th Two-thirds of our students are girls grade.
We are not simply interested in building schools. We want to build bridges of understanding and mutual respect between Afghans and Americans. Each of the Afghan schools is connected to a community in the United States.
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