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AADO has developed these projects to play an effective role in capacity building inside the country.
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Secondary Science and Mathematics Teacher Training in Afghanistan
Funded by The Planet Wheeler Foundation and Individual Donors
More than two decades of conflict have had a devastating impact on the education system in Afghanistan.
Many teachers in Afghanistan have little or no formal training and therefore lack the knowledge to teach students to the levels required for further education or university entrance. Only a small proportion of students complete their final year of secondary education and even fewer are able to pass the demanding university entrance examination (Concor).
In Afghanistan all secondary students undertake the same 16 subjects as a part of their high school curriculum, including 3 Science and 3 Mathematics subjects. In the grading of the final year exam and the university entrance exam, Science and Mathematics subjects are weighted 3 and 4 times higher, respectively, than the other 10 subjects. This means that any lack of skill or qualifications amongst science and mathematics teachers has a far greater impact on the final year performance of students.
There is also a significant disparity between the standard of education offered to students by different schools, in large part due to a shortage of appropriately qualified and experienced teachers.
As a result of our capacity-building program, AADO has now successfully trained 1293 secondary
teachers in the subjects of Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Mathematics. AADO has undertaken training projects in Kabul, Herat and Jalalabad Cities and Charikar, Parwan Province and Qarabagh, Kabul Province. AADO collaborates closely with the Ministry of Education to find both eligible trainees and suitable trainers.
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Carpentry: Technical Vocational Education and Training
Funded by Deutsche Afghan Initiative and the Direct Aid Program, Australian Embassy Kabul
For the past two years AADO has been operating a successful intensive program offering Afghan youth the opportunity to receive high quality technical vocational education and training (TVET) in carpentry and joinery.
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Life Skills Training for Rural Women and Girls
Funded by Cabrini Health
Issue - Poor health, little knowledge about basic hygiene or nutrition, high illiteracy contribute to extremely high maternal and infant mortality in Afghanistan.
Very few women in rural districts, such as Qarabagh, Sharkadara, Farza, Mir Bacha Kot, have received any formal education.
AADO’s 12 month Life Skills program is aimed at improving the life skills of poor, illiterate, rural women and girls aged 15-35. The first six months is comprised of literacy, numeracy and basic health training, including necessary life skills such as physiology, hygiene, nutrition and proper social etiquette.
The second six months provides vocational training in the form of dressmaking, tailoring and embroidery, interwoven with continuing literacy, numeracy and health skills.
The outcome of literacy education being embedded with other life skills and livelihood training is that trainees have the genuine need to use their literacy skills throughout different training, which helps in cementing this knowledge.
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AADO has developed these projects to play an effective role in capacity building inside the country.
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Teaching Photojournalism: Vocational Training in Afghanistan
Nowroz celebration and Photo Exibition
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From Guns to Pens
Ongoing Youth Vocational Training Project
This project worked with Afghan youth who have grown up in an environment largely defined by the gun, providing them with vocational training and skills development.
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From Chaos to Community
Health and Vocational Training Centre
This project will assist rehabilitation in providing a women's health clinic meeting basic health needs of approximately 2000 women and children from "Qulla e Pahlawan" and surrounding villages together with vocational training for children and adults.
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