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Twin Schools

SCA started its work with twin schools several years ago. From the beginning it was mostly SCAs local committees that had contact with a school in Afghanistan, but lately more and more schools in Sweden are interested in having contact with children in Afghanistan. Today there are 9 twin schools that are connected to schools and local committees in Sweden. SCA also has cooperation with an organization called Afghan Connection and via them there are 9 schools in England that are connected to schools in Afghanistan.

From 2006-2008 this work will be expanded. SCA and Afghan Connection have been granted almost 350 000 Euros to develop the work with twin schools. The goal is to have 45 twin schools established in Afghanistan and 45 schools in Europe (25 in Sweden and 20 in England) after three years.

Twin Schools - the overall goal

The overall goal with the project is to spread knowledge to Swedish and British students about development issues and about the situation in one of the poorest countries in the world. The base for the project is human rights. The idea is that issues like human rights, gender, and the importance of education will be part of the daily education.

There will also be mutual information sharing between Sweden, England and Afghanistan. The students in Europe are also encouraged to do fundraising for their twin school that can be used to build classrooms, toilets or for school material. Both primary and secondary schools will be involved in the project.

Project staff

Three people will be employed to work with the project, one in each country. The idea is that these coordinators travel to Afghanistan at least two times each year to visit the different schools and gather information that can be distributed to the schools in Europe. The coordinator in Afghanistan will also get the opportunity to go to Europe and visit the twin schools there.

A very important group for the project are SCAs school consultants. Those will be the primary messengers between Afghanistan and Europe. They are in constant contact with the schools in Afghanistan and they will do most of the information sharing.

Besides the exchange of information between the schools, two conferences will also be held for the students in Sweden and England where they will get a chance to discuss the project but also issues like human rights and solidarity.

The development of the project can be followed both through www.sak.se and www.afghanconnection.org

Read more

• Twin Schools/local branches (Swedish pages)