30 years of chronic instability and conflict have had a dramatic impact on children’s education and wellbeing in Afghanistan. Extreme poverty and poor sanitation mean that one in four children will die before their fifth birthday - the third highest under five mortality rate in the world.
As a result of the increase in school enrolment after the fall of the Taliban regime, children over the age of 8 are no longer allowed to enter government run schools at grade 1. Huge numbers of children are, therefore, excluded from school and Children in Crisis are working to change this. Decades of conflict in Afghanistan have had an impact not only on access and quality of education but on the ability of adults to protect children from harm.
CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN AFGHANISTAN
Children in Crisis is committed to ensuring the protection of children in Afghanistan, and has been working for 12 years to provide them with education.
- Community Centres - Children in Crisis is running four community centres in deprived areas of Kabul. These centres provide accelerated learning classes to children to enable them to enter government school, as well as providing literacy and health classes for women.
- Social Worker Training - Children in Crisis is working with UNICEF to run a Social Worker Training project in Kabul and other central provinces. The project aims to protect some of the most vulnerable children in Afghanistan: children in conflict with the law, children in institutions and children within communities.
- Child Rights Training - In Kabul Province we are delivering a child rights project promoting the rights of children, especially girls, to access quality education free from violence and addressing the important issue of violence against women.
- Teacher Training - Over the past 10 years Children in Crisis has trained over 10,000 teachers to provide education to some of Afghanistan's most vulnerable children. Currently we are working with World Vision and the Ministry of Education to train teachers in the provinces of Ghor and Badghis.
