ChildFund Afghanistan: Teaching the Basics
During a visit to Dahanpul in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan, a team of Christian Children's Fund workers spoke to Aminullah, a young Afghan woman who recounted her struggle to learn how to read. "When I was eight years old, I asked my father to teach me to read. At first he refused and said that girls didn’t need to know how to read but I asked him so often and with all my heart so that eventually he agreed to allow me to sit in on lessons he gave to my younger brother. Every evening, after our work was finished, we would sit together and draw letters and simple words in the sand."
To help youth like Aminullah, Christian Children's Fund, operating as ChildFund Afghanistan (CFA) is providing literacy courses in Dahanpul and other villages. Created in close cooperation with the Afghan Ministry of Education, these courses help children and youth in areas where the Afghan government still does not have formal schooling. In those areas in which schooling does exist, children similar to Aminullah, who represent an older group of children robbed of an education, must use accelerated learning techniques to enter the formalized schooling system. The length of the accelerated learning course is nine months. During that time, three different books are used in order for a student to complete the first three years of school. Read more at:
http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/content.aspx?id=911
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