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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 the major Sida development partners in the northern provinces.
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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.
Read more and download the full report
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Peter Brune new Secretary General
Stockholm/Kabul,
June 18, 2010
Mr. Peter Brune from Sweden was today appointed as new Secretary General of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan.
Mr. Brune has long experience from working on executive position for non-for-profit organizations. On his last assignment he was senior advisor for a small arms control program in Nicaragua in Central America, led by United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Mr. Brune has a background as a teacher (he took his master in 1989) and has also been a researcher at Freiburg University in Germany. Mr. Brune is 47 years old, married since 18 years with Carin Brune who is working at Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Stockholm. They have four children.
Mr. Brune replaces Mr. Torbjorn Pettersson who recently was selected as the Swedish Ambassador to Afghanistan.
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Using the community to build
acceptance for disabled students
Kabul,
June 5, 2010
The comprehensive approach in SCA’s rehabilitation program (RAD) has led to a successful integration of children with disabilities into mainstream schools.
A case study by SCA’s Fanny Verwoerdt, Special and Inclusive Education Technical Advisor, shows that acceptance is crucial for the inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools. After acceptance is met capacity building of the teachers is the second most important.
Also a raised awareness amongst parents and community members and building the capacity of mainstream school staffs are contributing not only to an inclusive environment in school, but an inclusive environment in the community as a whole. The Afghan government has a key role to create sustainability, which can only be created if they are involved and informed from the start.
Click on the link to download the case study (PDF) Supporting Learners with Disabilities
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Maidan Shahr,
May 23, 2010
On May 23 the latest batch of midwives graduated from the SCA’s Community Midwifery School in Maidan Shahr, Wardak province. So far 151 midwives have graduated from SCA Midwife schools which have successfully contributed in decreasing the children and mothers mortality rate in Afghanistan.
Mamorak village receives its first midwife
The newly graduated midwife Ms. Rahima returns to her village.
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SCA's Secretary-General appointed
new Swedish ambassador to Afghanistan
Stockholm,
May 20, 2010
The Swedish Government today appointed the Secretary-General of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, Torbjörn Pettersson, as Sweden's new Ambassador to Afghanistan.
Press release from Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Kabul,
April 15, 2010
Higher education is the backbone for development in any country while in Afghanistan the attention from the donor countries has rather been on constructions of schools or short term trainings.
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan is the only non-governmental organisation in Afghanistan facilitating a Master Programme in Educational Development and Research (MAP).
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Newsletter 5/2009-10
Kabul,
April 8, 2010
The SCA Newsletter follows the Persian calendar and in this years last edition (No 5, 1388-89) SCA Newsletter highlights disabled peoples situation.
780 000 people in Afghanistan suffer from severe disablity. The majority of people with disability are children in the age 0-14 year. Through Community based Rehablitation disabled can be supported to gain access to education, public services, and jobs.
Click here to download the newsletter as a PDF
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Kabul,
March 31, 2010
The fifth South Asian Regional Conference (SARC) declaration for persons with disabilities was signed after a three day conference in Kabul.
The conference focused on the role of Community Based Rehabilitation in empowering women and children with disability, particularly in Afghanistan.
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Kabul,
March 24, 2010
Rohid, 9 years old in Jalalabad city has just started to walk. He was 3 years old when a fever led to an intellectual disability and also lost the ability to walk.
Starting on March 28 a two-day regional CBR conference is held in Kabul. The aim is to call for more support and attention to the situation of children like Rohid.
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Sal-e-Naw Mubarak!
Kabul,
March 21, 2010
Thousands of Afghans are expected to visit the fourth Khalifa of Islam, Hazrat
Ali’s shrine in Mazar-e-Sharif to welcome and celebrate the new year 1389.
Photo: Marcus Svensson
March 21 is the persian new year Nawruz, and SCA wish for happiness, hope and prosperity to last all year through.
Sal-e-Naw Mubarak!
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Kabul,
March 8, 2010
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan celebrated the 8th of March “International Women’s Day” at all its 10 offices in Afghanistan today. SCA has 5500 employees in Afghanistan, 1283 are women. They were given an appreciation letters for the hard work they carry out, especially in the field work.
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Jalalabad,
March 6, 2010
Breshna, 18, from Jalalabad was two years old when her family realized that she had polio. Due to her disability she has never been to a school, but Breshna learned tailoring at a vocational training of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan. Now she has her own tailoring business at her home and is voluntarily teaching other disabled in the business.
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Press release from ACBAR,
February 5, 2010
Over the past few weeks, inaccurate information regarding the disbursement of aid money in Afghanistan has been circulated (ref: Pajhwok Afghan News 26 of January 2010). Therefore, The Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) in consultation with its members would like to highlight some key facts and figures in light of the ongoing discussion.
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