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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 25 twin schools that are connected to schools and local committees in Sweden.

The work with twin schools is carried out as a EC-funded project between SCA and three partner organizations in Europe. Afghan Connection in UK, People in Peril Association in Slovakia and Jaan Tönisson Insitute in Estonia. Each partner country has several twin schools in Afghanistan.

Twin Schools - the overall goal

The overall goal with the project is to spread knowledge to students and teachers about development issues and about the situation in one of the poorest countries in the world. The base for the project is the UN Millennium Development Goals. 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 the schools in Afghanistan and their European twin school through the exhange of learning and teaching material. 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

There is one national facilitator in each European partner country. Additionaly there are one Twin School Officer and one Twin School assistant working in Kabul with the project. There is also a project coordinator based at SCA office in Sweden. The facilitators will travel to Afghanistan to visit the different schools and gather information that can be distributed to the schools in Europe.

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, annual conferences will also be held for the students and teachers in the project where they will get a chance to discuss the project but also issues like human rights, MDGs and solidarity.

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Twin Schools/local branches (Swedish pages)

Read more about the Millennium Development Goals and the situation for Afghanistan according to these goals through this UNDP MDG Monitor.