Promoting a Reading Culture

Literacy thrives when learners have access to reading material. CW4WAfghan provides access to books through our teacher training and literacy programs. By placing small “starter” libraries into classrooms, books introduce the joy of reading for pleasure among students, and their families, when borrowers are able to bring books home.

We equipped more than 260 schools with School Library Starter Kits, established 36 community libraries, and set up small libraries in 132 literacy classes and contributed to the literacy education of more than 3,100 of our literacy graduates. We deliver orientation workshops for schools and communities on how to use and sustain these valuable resources.

Our libraries consist of high quality local language books – purchased from local publishers in Afghanistan – suitable for new readers on a variety of topics, from animal husbandry to history and poetry.

Hands-on Science Learning

CW4WAfghan equipped more than 250 schools with School Science Lab Starter Kits. In addition to items like anatomy models, microscopes and other equipment, these kits include consumables such as chemicals that teachers use in experiments during class. These consumables need to be replaced regularly. CW4WAfghan replenishes schools’ sciences labs during monitoring visits to schools.

“A library tells us that we are not alone and never have been.”  Deborah Ellis, Author: The Breadwinner.