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Afghanistan's Women & Girls

In 2003, AP recruited an information consultant, Mary Moore, to work with the Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) and she produced diaries of her consultancy. The same year, AP began to work with Sadiqa Basiri, an AWN member and former refugee who started a program to educate girls in her home village (Godah, in Wardak province).

After a donor raised funds for the program, AP helped Ms Basiri’s organization, the Oruj Learning Center, to manage the project and produce monthly reports (2003-2005). In December 2005, AP organized a pen-pal exchange between students from Godah and students at the Squannacook Primary School in Townsend, Massachusetts.

Use the menu on the right to explore background information on women and girls in Afghanistan, monthly reports from a girls' school in the country, pages about a pen-pal program between US and Afghan children, as well as links to additional resources.

Related AP Partners Afghan Women's Network Oruj Learning Center

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