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Enabling entrance to university

Enabling young people in rural areas to take Afghanistan’s national university entrance examination

Astonishingly, the village of Zeera Gag did not even have a school building two years ago. Children and teenagers had to study outside in all weathers until Nai Qala built them a school in 2015. Now, not only can they study in decent conditions but they even have the unprecedented opportunity to apply to go to university. As of January 2017, Nai Qala provided a course of supplementary lessons for the older students – both young men and young women – to prepare them for the Kankor (university entrance) examination. When the course was announced, 160 of Zeera Gag’s older students asked to join it.

A ceremony in the village marked the end of the Kankor preparation course. As of early May, 24 students (13 young women and 11 young men) had enrolled to take the Kankor examination. Not all the students on this year’s course will succeed in obtaining a place at a university, but it is hoped that some of them will. Before Nai Qala arrived in Zeera Gag a few years ago, no young people took the examination in any case, so all the students are proud – and their community is proud of them – that they were good enough to complete a course focused on university entrance. This alone gives them an advantage in finding promising occupations in their region.

For those who will attend university, their prospects for employment in their home areas are good. When state agencies or NGOs want to carry out important programs in these areas, it is hard to find a qualified doctor, engineer, agronomist, teacher, vet’ – or other professions – from these regions. Educated young people can strengthen their communities, their provinces, and their country too.

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Training for staff

Every year Nai Qala supports its staff in their professional development by sending them on training courses relevant to their responsibilities.

In August 2017, Mr. Ali Reza successfully completed a 6-day course on organizational development and leadership in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Congratulations!

After the course, Mr. Ali Reza said: “I am sure it is a good and right investment because human resources are the most important resource in an organization and the organization’s success depends on its human resources“.

In 2016 and 2017 local Nai Qala employees participated in more than 25 courses, offering capacity-building in a wide selection of subjects such as advocacy, human resource management, monitoring and evaluation, human rights, English language skills, hygiene, finance, pedagogy, and training in both Early Childhood Education and Community-Based Education.

In order to strengthen organizational capacity, Nai Qala’s president attended and successfully completed a “Future Leaders Program” course held at Wolfson College, Oxford (England) and got a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Modern Management for Non-Profit Organizations, held at Geneva University (Switzerland).

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A sweet tradition in Sokhtagi

Opening ceremony to celebrate the start of construction work at Sokhtagi school.

The first stone was laid down by the chief of Sokhtagi community as well as the provincial education minister.


Local tradition is to wrap the first stone in a red fabric, tied it with a ribbon and have sweets.

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ECD simple hygiene measures

Early Childhood Education program includes basic hygiene measures

During the early childhood education class, children learn how to wash their hands before going to class or before eating. Children are effective communicators and agents of change: they learn the habits of good hygiene at school and pass them on home and in the community. For children, this direct involvement in the promotion of hygiene inculcates a sense of personal capacity building.

According to Unicef, every day about 4,000 children under five die of diarrheal diseases worldwide. Washing hands with soap and water is one of the most effective and cheapest ways to prevent these deaths. Washing hands reduces the number of deaths associated with diarrhea by more than 40% and acute respiratory illness by around 25%.

Promoting good hygiene and health habits early in life can lead to lifelong hygiene behaviors.

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Sokhtagi school construction just started

Construction of the new school building just started in the village of Sokhtagi, with the support of the community

Villagers rented a tractor and prepared the field so that construction could start: 6 meter deep, on a surface of 1300 square meters.

The ceremony for the opening of the construction happened in the presence of the local community, the provincial minister of education and, of course, the girls who will benefit from the new building.

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Capacity building

Nai Qala offers tutoring classes for students who are preparing for the exam entrance to university

To overcome the students’gaps in scientific topics such as mathematics, physics or chemistry, Nai Qala recruited three teachers with a university degree in science to give tutorial classes during the winter break.

200 students from Zeera Gag school have benefited from tutorial classes during 3 month, January-April 2017. The course focused on the preparation for the Kankor examination, the exam for university entrance.

To know more about Nai Qala’s capacity project, click here

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ECD classes have started


New engagement, new horizon of hope:  Early Childhood Development Education (pre-school education).

Over the past 10 years, the Nai Qala Association (NQA) has built schools in regions where children had never even seen a school building. We believe in strengthening their dignity by ensuring that children learn in proper conditions.

Now we are adding a new dimension to our engagement: we are now providing Early Childhood Development (ECD) classes to improve the quality of education for young children aged 5-6 years in the regions where we have built schools.

Dignity through quality learning facilities and quality education is the way forward in rural Afghanistan which accounts for more than 80% of the country’s population.

The ECD program helps children to develop their imagination, talents and confidence at a very young age.

2 pilot ECD classes have started in July

 

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Health

We promote health and hygiene practices in our education programs.
We built a basic health care clinic and we include WASH facilites in the schools we build.

We improve the health conditions of thousands of people by providing access to health services and increasing hygiene and health awareness.

  • We provide access to health services:
  • We increase health awareness and improve hygiene practices:
    • by providing toilets and clean water in each of the school we build; and by raising awareness of schoolchildren through prevention messages;
    • by training thousands of preschool children on basic hygiene measures and informing their parents about health, hygiene and nutrition;
    • by promoting gardening initiatives to enhance the nutritional  status of the entire family.
    • raising awareness and training pre-school teachers in first aid and good hygiene practices.
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Education

We improve learning conditions by building and equipping schools, and by providing quality education program to children from preschool to higher education. We work on the root causes of low/no attendance of children, in particular girls, to education by remedying to the absence of decent learning conditions and by preventing drop out.
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مونږ د لاندی فعالیتونو له لاری د زدکړی شرایط پیاوړی کوو:

مو نږ هڅه کوو تر څو د لانی کارونو په تر سره کولو له ښوونځی نه د زده کونکو د تښتی مخه ونیسو:

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