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Staff Member from Geneva Visits the Kart-e-Char School

Post author:Adminafd
Post published:19 September 2019
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Our team member in Geneva was given the golden opportunity to visit the beautiful country of Afghanistan for the first time in 5 years! This allowed her to not only to visit the office of AfD in Kabul, but also to stop by one of our schools for street working children in Kart-e-Char, in a very populated area of Kabul. The experience there, after seeing all of the happy faces of the children, made her very avid to share what she observed in the school.

School for Street Working Children

Post author:stephane
Post published:22 March 2018
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Nearly four decades of war in Afghanistan has led to socioeconomic strife on a nationwide scale. Extreme poverty and instability have caused an increase in child labor in the country. Many families are thus forced to employ their children to earn extra money to survive. According to UNICEF, child labor affects around 25% of afghan children from age five to fourteen. (Afghanistan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2010 – 2011: Final Report). These children do not have the opportunity to attend formal schools.

Rahyab School for Children with Disabilities

Post author:stephane
Post published:22 March 2018
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Afghan children face hardship on many levels, but disabled children are confronted with additional barriers, such as social stigma and isolation from the community. It is believed that 1 in 20 Afghan children today live with disabilities, either congenital or as a consequence of the ongoing war. The continuing conflict and displacement of populations make it difficult to plan and provide specialized rehabilitation and education services for the disabled.