Project Overview
Many Afghanis go through life with little or no education. Where education is available, it is generally of poor quality and compromised by lack of experienced teachers.

In this project, Islamic Relief aims to revitalize, rehabilitate, improve and make functional the primary education infrastructure and system in Kandahar through reconstructing schools, training teachers, preparing manuals and establishing a resource centre.

Problem / Project Background
Decades of conflict and civil unrest has resulted in the destruction of schools and the quality of teaching associated with the Kandahar Education Directorate.

Islamic Relief proposed a holistic approach to strengthen the capacity of the Kandahar Education Directorate in primary education along with essential steps to rehabilitate and respond to the immediate needs of the primary schools.

Project Objectives
To improve the quality of education in southern Afghanistan through a process of providing systematic teachers training manuals to currently serving, informal teachers who have no prior history of teacher training or qualifications

Project Activities

• Developing new refresher teacher training manuals and resource materials which focus on modern teaching techniques.
• Printing and ditributing 1500 copies of teacher training manuals.
• Providing training and manuals to up to 1300 informal teachers
• Training up to 90 master trainers.

Beneficiaries
Up to 1300 in-service teachers who currently lack basic qualifications, approximately 74,080 currently enrolled students (who make-up 68 percent of the current 120,000 students enrolled in Kandahar) and 25,000 to 35,000 new students each year.