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Afghanistan: A Community-Supported Literacy and Health Training Program for 1,700 Women Thrives in Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province

Posted on Tue, 01/05/2010 – 20:03

Kabul- A Community Action Group in a highly insecure region of Afghanistan supports integrated literacy and health classes that have trained 1,700 women and girls. With training from Future Generations Afghanistan and support from the Canada Fund and Flora Family Foundation, this local action group in Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province acts as an effective interface between the community and the Afghanistan of Ministry of Education.

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Summary of Impact

 

With an approach that engages community and government partnerships, Future Generations raises the capacity of people to create locally-appropriate solutions that last.

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Women's Empowerment

Community meeting

Across five districts in Arunachal Pradesh, more than 150 women's groups mobilize social change. They:

  • Improve health in the home
  • Change practices such as child marriage, alcholism, and violence against women
  • Promote kitchen gardens
  •  Increase income through micro-credit programs

They even sing their own songs about how their lives have changed with the help of Future Generations Arunachal.

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Women Improving Health

Afghan Community Health Worker with Baby

The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in lifestyle and basic health care in the home.

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Future Generations Approach Reduces Under-Five Child Mortality in Afghanistan by 46 Percent

Posted on Wed, 09/09/2009 – 19:56

In remote Afghan valleys, a women’s empowerment project reduced under-five child mortality by 46 percent in two years. From 2005-2006, for each village a Community Health Worker (CHW) was trained using five new interventions of community-based child health care. Unexpectedly the outside funding was diverted, but the CHWs continued the program themselves.

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Future Generations Newsletter Autumn 2009

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
September, 2009

Future Generations Autumn 2009 newsletter features articles on:

  • Reducing child mortality in Afghanistan
  • Kitchen gardens raising women's empowerment in Northeast India
  • New Pendeba Society in Tibet, China
  • Connecting students through DimDim
  • Alumni News: Women's Photovoice
  • Kresge Planning Grant for Green Campus
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National Geographic features Jamkhed, a learning partner of Future Generations

Posted on Tue, 12/23/2008 – 19:51

Future Generations Master's Degree Students in JamkhedFuture Generations Master's Degree Students in JamkhedThe December, 2008 issue of National Geographic features Jamkhed, a community-based rural health program in India.  Future Generations has worked closely with and continues to learn a great deal from the Comprehensive Rural Health Program of Jamkhed. As part of their India residential, Future Generations Master's Degree students reside at Jamkhed and learn from a vast range of community experience. 

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Mosque-based Literacy Classes for Women

Women's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictWomen's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictAn estimated 79% of Afghan women and girls cannot read and write, but for the Hazara ethnic communities in the central highlands, literacy for women and the education of  was common before the Taliban. In early 2002, at a community meeting organized by Future Generations in Jaghori District of Ghazni Province, the local leaders chose literacy for women as one of their initial work plan projects.

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Future Generations Afghanistan featured in Thomas College Magazine

Posted on Tue, 08/14/2007 – 19:04
Jaghori Girls in Head Scarfs(148).jpg

Dorothy W. Knapp, former deputy country director for Future generations Afghanistan, writes for Thomas College Magazine about the challenges involved in improving Afghanistan's education system, and how they can be overcome using our unique methodology.  From the article Raising Education Brick by Brick in Afghanistan:

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