Association activities and projects

Projects completed

Under the aegis of ”Schools for Peace” we have completed the following projects:

School in Mohmandan

The building of a school for girls in Mohmandan (Balkh province, northern Afghanistan). The school building consists of eleven rooms: 9 classrooms, a school office/teachers’ room and a library/storeroom. The total surface amounts to 1 932 square metres, including the educational/usable floor space of 1200 square metres. The building can hold 500 people. The project was completed March 2006.

School building complex (2 schools) in Qaramqul

Establishing a school building complex and water tanks in Afghanistan (Qaramqul, Faryab province in north-western Afghanistan). The complex holds circa 2000 students. The project involved establishing a school building that would embrace primary, secondary and high schools in Qaramqul (Qaramqul High School), a school building that would embrace primary and secondary schools (Nasswan Yusuf Merzaiee) for girls in Qaramqul, sports and leisure area, water tanks with water treatment filters, school equipment and study aid collection and shipment.

Volunteer projects 2006

The Association volunteers, for the aid for Afghanistan project co-financed in 2006 by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, worked in Afghanistan as teachers of English, methodology of teaching and computer science. For many participants of those courses it was the first time ever to encounter a non-Afghan culture, and to have a chance to learn something about a country of a different cultural region. Without doubt the effort the volunteers put into their work helped to create a positive image of Poland beyond its borders.

Textbooks and other study aids 2002-2006

Study aid (books, school textbooks, mainly English ones, notebooks, coloured pencils, office supplies, etc.) were shipped to schools located in the northern part of Afghanistan and to the Mazar-e Sharif University.

Projects in progress

Establishing a vocational school of agriculture in Mazar-e Sharif (Afghanistan)

In spring 2008 an additional building comprising the Balkh University Faculty of Agriculture building complex in Mazar-e Sharif was already under construction. As early as the beginning of 2007 we took first steps to start the construction work of a vocational school of agriculture building and a dormitory in Mazar-e Sharif. We drew up a detailed building project in co-operation with our long-time partners: VUSAF, an Afghan NGO, and Afghanistan-Schulen, a German NOGO (www.afghanistan-schulen.de)...  (more >>>) 

Establishing a school building complex in Zenda Jan (Afghanistan)

The construction work of a girls school in the Zenda Jan district started in October 2008. As early as in 2006 we started the preparation work to prepare the project and build a school complex for approx. 2500 girls in Zenda Jan near Herat, western Afghanistan. Relying on a project of a two-storey school building already implemented near Herat by our friends of Women for Afghan Women, we drew up a detailed building project in co-operation with the Women for Afghan Women organization...  (more >>>) 

Projects ready and waiting to be implemented

Building a vocational school for Tibetan people in Kham province (PRC)

Establishing a building for use as a vocational school for Tibetan people in Xikang (Kham) province, China. The children of Tibetans, who live there mainly as nomads, are deprived of any sort of education. The project involves the completion of the school building the construction of which has been started by Tibetans, building a boarding house for children, a study aid shipment and the sending financial help for teachers.

A high school building in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan

Construction of a high school for boys and girls in Mazar-e Sharif. Its name is Lycee Maqsadullah Shaheed. The school has 620 boys and 670 Girls studying in grade 1 to 11. They have 42 groups and come in two shifts. The school has an old building which has ten small classrooms, which is of course not enough for such a great number of students. In addition, the students also have to use 9 tents. The school administration has requested us to provide the children a building with ten furnished classrooms.

Creating computer centres /educational centres

Methodological workshops for a group of 100 academic teachers

Methodological workshops for a group of 100 academic teachers of four Afghan universities (Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e Sharif, Jalalabad). We were requested to organize such workshops by the Presidents of the two biggest universities in Afghanistan, namely the Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif Universities. The workshops are going to be carried out with the approval of the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education and the authorities of the Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif Universities.

Future projects

A computer room, computer tutorials and English courses in Pakistan

The Education for Peace association has been working on a project aiding the  Kalasha  people, an ethnic group residing in the mountains of Chitral district in Pakistan. We are planning, amongst other things, to provide the only school in that region with computer equipment and a computer network, as well as organize computer tutorials and English courses. With their population amounting to just 3,000 people nowadays, the  Kalasha  are an ethnic and religious group of a fabulously ancient tradition forced to preserve their cultural identity and distinct character of their ancient religion in the face of Islamic expansion in the Chitral mountain region, while living in extreme conditions, below the poverty line. The envisaged launch date of the project is August/September 2009.

Building small school centres for women and girls in the southern part of Afghanistan

Building small school centres for women and girls in the southern part of Afghanistan (in the following provinces: Ghazni, Paktia, Paktika) in cooperation with Women for Afghan Women.

Establishing a school building in Samangan province

Establishing a school building in Samangan province (near Aibak, northern Afghanistan) in cooperation with VUSAF / Afghanistan Schulen.

Building wells and water tanks for the use of school buildings and educational centres in Afghanistan

Computer and English courses for teachers and young people in Afghanistan

Handicraft and weaving training for women in Afghanistan

Study aid (foreign language textbooks, writing materials, notebooks, cassettes, computers, printers, etc.) collection and shipment to Afghanistan.

Association’s main events

Inauguration of the school year at the two new schools built by our Association in Afghanistan

Participation in the Polish Centre for International Aid Forum

On 22 September 2007 the Polish International Aid Forum took place in the National Library in Warsaw, organized by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department of Developmental Co-operation). Also our Association was also invited to take part in the Forum, which gave us an opportunity to present our activities to a wider audience and to share our experience with other organizations. Click here for official info about the Forum