Tolo News: A report prepared by a presidential task team assigned to investigate reports of ghost schools, teachers and students reveals that there are hundreds of ghost schools and thousands of ghost teachers and students recorded around the country. The report, which was leaked to TOLO news, also states that millions of dollars has been embezzled from
Khaama Press December 25, 2015 Modi announces 500 scholarships for the children of martyred Afghan troops – The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced 500 scholarships for the children of members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANS) who have lost their lives defending the country. In his speech during the inauguration ceremony of the
IRIN: Intensifying conflict in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province has forced more than 150 schools to close, leaving about 100,000 students vulnerable to recruitment by the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: The Government of the United States plans to award 80 Fulbright scholarships to Afghan students this year, including 77 for Master’s and 3 for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degrees. With an aim to increase the number of scholarships every year after more than 20 years of suspension, the US government has awarded scholarships
Khaama Press December 6, 2015 The American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian, Angelina will donate all the proceeds from her work on the film ‘The Breadwinner’ to the education of Afghan girls. Angelina has visited Afghanistan twice during the recent years and funds a girls school in north of Kabul through profits from her jewellery collection.
Global Voices: In Afghanistan, education begins at home. That is the message of Saber Hussaini, a 35-year-old author and storyteller who has been on his bike for more than a month, distributing volumes of children’s books in villages where there is a demand for reading materials and a program of learning that local government cannot satisfy.
Khaama Press November 25, 2015 United Nations (UN) says the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan continues to severely restrict access to education for women and girls Overall, for the first nine months (1 January to 30 September) of 2015, approximately 210 schools closed due to conflict, affecting access to education to more than 20,500 girls. Direct threats
The National Post: When Sakena Yacoobi ran 80 underground schools for 3,000 girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban, some teachers hid books in sacks of wheat and rice to avoid detection. “It is very hard to operate a school where the students cannot be seen,” says Yacoobi, who is known as Afghanistan’s “mother of education.”
Albawaba: More than 50 schools have been closed due to recent clashes between security forces and insurgents in the provincial capital and three nearby districts of southern Helmand province, education officials said on Wednesday. Helmand education director Abdul Matin Jaffar told Pajhwok Afghan News during an exclusive interview that 51 schools had been closed in
New China TV video description: At her age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize, an award previously won by Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan.