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Kabul,
August 30, 2010
The acting Minister of Public Health Dr. Suraya Dalil and SCA Country Director Mr. Anders Fange after signing the BPHS contract for Wardak province. Photo: Haji Mohammad/SCA
On August 29th the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) renewed the contract with Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) to provide health service to the people of Wardak province in central Afghanistan.
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Kabul,
August 22, 2010
In this issue; read about the important work of SCA trained midwifes, and in Bamyan province SCA education effort has been awarded for its work. SCAs new secretary general is introduced, and you will also learn more about the education success story; Community Based Education.
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Swedish Parliamentarian visited northern projects
Mazar-e-Sharif,
July 28, 2010
Mrs Sahlin visited SCA's orthopedic workshop and physiotherapy clinic.
Photo: Per Olsson
The leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party Mrs Mona Sahlin headed the Swedish delegation visit to SCA in Mazar-e-Sharif on 28 July. SCA briefed Mrs Sahlin and the delegation on development works financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
Mrs Mona Sahlin expressed her concerns on capacity building of Afghan government, education for girls and inspected the activities in the orthopedic workshop and physiotherapy clinic operated by SCA in Mazar-e-Sharif hospital, where Mrs Sahlin met and discussed the rehabilitation of disabled people with patients and SCA technicians.
The event was part of her visits to Sida development partners in the northern provinces.
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Samangan/Aybak,
July 28, 2010
Photo: Makhfi Azizi
Pregnancy and poor maternal health is still claiming 1600 deaths for every 100,000 live births, giving Afghanistan the second worst maternal mortality rate in the world. With such a high number of deaths more focus and funding are needed to give Afghan mothers and children a chance to survive. Today SCA inaugurate a new midwifery school in Samangan.
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Kabul,
July 15, 2010
Mohammad Aslam was killed in a gun battle between afghan police and anti government forces in May. He was a tenth grade student at SCA Alibaba Model School in Paktika province and is one of the 1047 killed afghan civilians in the first six months of 2010.
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Kabul,
June 23, 2010
Students in a Community Based Education class in Takhar province.
Photo: Magnus Forsberg
A study by SCA shows that students in SCA supported schools performs better compared to students in government schools. And a very promising finding is that students in SCA Community Based Education (CBE) classes do better and even excel over the students in the larger SCA Model Schools (Model Schools = better equipped and resourced schools). An explanation for this is good teacher-students relation as a unique characteristic of CBE classes.
Currently SCA support 45 Model schools. Additionally, SCA provides support to around 1100 classes of CBE, where more than half of the students are girls.
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