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School starts with tons of notebooks

Kabul, February 28, 2009

Currently several tons of school material is loaded on the trucks to be sent out from the storage facility at Kabul Management Office warehouse where the stationary are stored and packed.

113.000 students and schools in twelve provinces will receive stationeries from SCA. Schools as well as administrations will benefit from the stationery.

Every year thousands of students throughout Afghanistan’s provinces receive stationery and text books from SCA, but from this year on the government are responsible for delivering text books to the schools supported by SCA. Instead SCA will put effort in providing training and workshops to teachers and government education officials in the provinces.

It is long way for a single pen and notebook to travel until it reaches the student in remote areas. But well ahead of the schools opening in March the stationery will reach 45 model schools, of which 17 are girl’s schools, 80 girl’s annexes and over 1100 Community Based Schools (CBS).

Different donors support students with material worth 16 million Afs ($340000). The students will get their materials in the first week of their school studies.
SCA started supporting schools during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s through cross border operations from Peshawar in Pakistan.