A Voice For the Voiceless

MISSION

The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Afghanistan's Women & Girls

In 2003, AP recruited an information consultant, Mary Moore, to work with the Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) and she produced diaries of her consultancy. The same year, AP began to work with Sadiqa Basiri, an AWN member and former refugee who started a program to educate girls in her home village (Godah, in Wardak province).

After a donor raised funds for the program, AP helped Ms Basiri’s organization, the Oruj Learning Center, to manage the project and produce regular reports (2003-2005). In December 2005, AP organized a pen-pal exchange between students from Godah and students at the Squannacook Primary School in Townsend, Massachusetts.  In 2005, AP Director Iain Guest traveled to Afghanistan and reported on the efforts of the Oruj Learning Center in his blog.

• 2005 blogs:  by AP interns Shirin Sahani and Carrie Hassleback

• For the 2005 blog by AP Directo Iain Guest click here.

• 2004 blogs: by AP interns Sarah Schores and Ginny Baharona.

• 2006 blogs: by AP interns Erica Isaac and Alison Long.

• 2007 blogs: by AP interns Wilhemina Tsang and Audrey Roberts.

Use the menu on the right to explore background information on women and girls in Afghanistan, regular reports, produced by the Advocacy Project drawing off reports from a girls' school in Godah, pages about a pen-pal program between US and Afghan children, as well as links to additional resources.



Related AP Partners Afghan Women's Network Oruj Learning Center