Creating Hope International (CHI) & Afghanistan Institute of Learning (AIL) Project Partners in Health and Education in Afghanistan

AIL Strategy to Empower and Educate Afghan Women 1. Begin at the grassroots with locally identified needs. 2. Start with the least controversial service in the least conservative area. 3. Do not impose services on a community. 4. Offer high-quality, culturally sensitive programs, incorporating feedback from participants. 5. Act at the request of the community when expanding services. 6. Require that the community contribute to the development of the new program. 7. Recognize that in Afghan culture, trust and relationships are personal not organizational. 8. Set flexible rules. 9. Hold high standards, have high expectations, and model them. 10. Offer more controversial programs in a voluntary, culturally sensitive way after trust has been established.

The Afghan Institute of Learning Program Locations

Tent Schools The first schools established by AIL and supported by CHI were often tent schools in the refugee camps in Northern Pakistan.

Secret Home School for Girls When the Taliban closed schools, AIL established 80 home schools for girls who wanted to continue their education.

AIL currently supports 46 centers in Herat, Mazar, Bamiyan, and Kabul, Afghanistan as well as in Peshawar, Pakistan. AIL Education Center

AIL Supports education in rural…

…and urban areas of Afghanistan No matter the setting, AIL strives to provide Afghan women with the skills they need to improve their lives.

Classes facilitated by AIL include: Photo credit: William Vazquez. Photographer; Maternal Health Initiative supported through a grant from the Abbott Fund Sewing… Literacy… Carpet weaving and many other subjects!

AIL also trains Afghan teachers to improve the educational system for future generations.

AIL’s director speaking to a group of AIL students.

AIL provides Health Services and Health Education to Afghan Women Dining for Women’s February donations will directly support health services and health education for the rural Afghan women that come to the Afghan Institute of Learning’s clinics in Herat, Afghanistan. Women and children waiting to be seen in one of AIL’s rural clinics.

AIL’s Clinic in a rural province

AIL Mobile Clinic visits women in areas that do not have clinics.

AIL Clinic Health Services A child being treated for burns at one of AIL’s clinics.

An elderly woman being seen by one of AIL’s Doctors.

AIL Community Health Workers and health professionals treat women and children that cannot travel to a clinic.

One of AIL’s vaccinators administering a vaccination.

An AIL staff member teaches a nutrition workshop to Afghan women. AIL’s Clinics provide health education classes to women

AIL’s university has a nurse/mid-wife training course A nursing student learns to take a patients blood pressure. Learning to work in a lab is also part of the nursing courses.

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