Said Wali, a former Mujahid who had lost his leg succeeded to walk with an artificial leg he attained from the SCA orthopedic workshop in Taloqan. A support SCA delivers for many people with disabilities. He is now free from his wooden crutches he used for fifteen years. [...]
SCA participated in a two-day 1st-ever job fair launched by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). SCA had established a stall, decorated with banners which conveyed information about vacant positions of doctors and other medical staff in its medical facilities. A female [...]
A ten-day training programme for teachers from different provinces concluded here at Kabul management office of Swedish Committee for Afghanistan. SCA had organized ten days training programme for its 25 school teachers and 4 consultants from Balkh, Samangan, Takhar, [...]
A vocational training conducted by Swedish Committee for Afghanistan in Ghazni brought an opportunity to Fatima Hossaini, an afflicted mother of three, divorced by her husband due to disabilities, to breathe with honor and dignity. Upon graduation from vocational training, [...]
54 newly hired social mobilizers with in the National Solidarity program recently participated in PRA-trainings organized by SCA. This training will help them to identify the needs in the villages and this will be important in the future development of the local [...]
A delegation of 13 Afghan teachers including four females pursuing their Master Degree studies under Swedish Committee for Afghanistan’s Teachers Educators Master Programme (TEMP) left for Sweden on an academic trip in order to defend their Master Degree thesis at [...]
Hearing impaired people in Mazar-e-Sharif with technical support of Swedish Committee for Afghanistan established their association in order to improve their economic, social, education and health status issues. This is first-ever hearing impaired people association [...]
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan funds small business project for people with disabilities through its civil society development funds in Jalalabad city, eastern Nangarhar province. Small business project of flourmill business development funded by SCA Civil Society Unit [...]
“I have received three great gifts in life: the first one was to be able to go to school and learn sign language. The second was to have the opportunity to become a teacher for other deaf students and the last gift is of course my family, my wife and our four [...]
A week-long training on special and inclusive education organized by the Swedish committee for Afghanistan ended here in Dasht-e-Qala district of Taloqan province. Initiated on 17th, teachers training concluded on 22nd of this month. It was conducted by rehabilitation of [...]
Second batch consisting of 16 female teachers and consultants of Swedish Committee for Afghanistan left for Ahmed Abad India, Tuesday, 12th of March on a ten-day professional training and study visits. These female teachers and school consultants from Balkh, Bamyan, Kunduz, [...]
Upon completion of two years training, 22 midwives graduated from SCA Community Midwifery Education (CME) program in Sar-e-Pul province. The graduation of this fourth batch of midwives brought the figure to 84, trained by Swedish Committee for Afghanistan CME programme in [...]
The Alliance of Health Organizations demands an immediate stop to intrusions into medical facilities by armed forces in Afghanistan, both foreign and national. The urge comes after the latest incident when ISAF troops searched, occupied and damaged a clinic in Saydabad [...]
A number of 16 female teachers and consultants of community based and model schools left for Karachi, Pakistan Tuesday, 19 February on a ten-day professional training and study visits to similar schools. Education programme of Swedish Committee for Afghanistan selected [...]
A month long capacity building training of teachers and provincial education directorate staff ended here in Samangan province. Capacity building training of teaching and management was conducted by Swedish Committee for Afghanistan in collaboration of provincial education [...]
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan’s Human Rights and Gender Unit organized a half day meeting on “ Promoting Human Rights and Gender: The Way forward” on 8th January, 2013. The objective of the meeting was, to share and [...]
Acting Secretary General Torvald Åkesson of Swedish Committee for Afghanistan has visited the SCA Mazar office. Mr. Åkesson will resign at the end of Febraury and this was his last visit in Mazar and Afghanistan as Secretary General for SCA. Among other visits, Torvald [...]
Rural Development Programme of Swedish Committee for Afghanistan organized a six-day workshop on building technical capacity and training for engineers. Engineering Staff of SCA Kabul Management office, North and South Regions, including representatives from different [...]
Ms. Naheed, and Mrs. Zarghona in their young ages, became lucky in achieving their goals getting an opportunity to study and to learn vocational training after their families allowed them. Now both females are financially supporting their families and enjoying a better [...]
A new school for Community Health Nursing Education in the provincial capital Mehtarlam, Laghman, inaugurated on Thursday 7 February 2013. 24 girls from remote districts of the province have been enrolled and they have started their 24 months education to become community [...]
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) established a resource center in Teacher Training College (TTC) Mazar-e-Sharif city in order to consolidate and integrate the special and inclusive education in Balkh provincial education department. SCA had signed a Memorandum of [...]
Upon completion of nearly a year-long vocational training, around 600 people with disabilities (PwDs) including 211 females graduated from Swedish Committee for Afghanistan vocational training programme, providing them an opportunity of self-employment to feed their [...]
Shazya, a mother of four is among thousands of other women, enrolled in more than one hundred health focused classes besides learning basic reading and writing acquired health awareness education. “I live in a village of Roi Doab, Samangan province. Due to lack of schools [...]
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan completed construction of a new building of Comprehensive Health Clinic (CHC) in Farashghan of Laghman , a remote village in Daulat shah district and handed-over to the Directorate of Public Health of eastern Laghman province. The [...]
After the successful completion of 1st term of capacity development project for the Community Development Councils (CDCs’) in Wardak province, the Ministry of Rural rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) awarded Swedish Committee for Afghanistan 2nd term of project for [...]
