Getting girls back to school in Afghanistan paid UNICEFUSA
In August 2019, students at the Bibi Amina Girls High School in Panjshir, a province in the North of Afghanistan, are excited to be back in school with their new UNICEF school supplies.Every child deserves the chance to go to school. But more than 30 years of sustained conflict have devastated Afghanistan's education system. An estimated 3.7 million children between the ages of 7 and 17 are out of school across the country, 60 percent of them girls.
Primary students play a clapping game at Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan.. Attacks on the nation's schools tripled between 2017 and 2018, surging from 68 to 192. In the first half of 2019, 36 schools across the country were reported closed due to violence, depriving 13,894 children of education.
The UNICEF-supported Girls' Access to Teacher's Education program offers female high school students who would like to become teachers a two-year training course. In 2018, UNICEF supported 5,300 community-based schools and ALCs in remote areas of Afghanistan, reaching over 150,000 students, more than half of them girls. They learn basic literacy and numeracy skills, along with critical life skills including cooperation, team work, communication and creativity. There are 58 centers currently functioning in Kandahar province."I want to thank my parents for believing in my education and thanks to those supporting us to learn," says Wasilla.
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