Literacy and Tailoring courses for the women of Afghanistan

Project Proposal

Agency Name: APDA (Afghan Peace and Democracy Act)

Project Name: Literacy and Tailoring courses for the women of Afghanistan

Location: Logar-Afghanistan

Duration: 6 Months

Funding Agency: Alternatives, Canada.

Fund Required: 10,000 $

Starting Date: 1st June, 2003

Contact APDA
Address:

F10 Rahmanbaba Road

, University Town Peshawar
Telephone: (091) 5701831
E-mail: info@afaghanact.org

Objectives of the project:

To enhance the standard of living of women of the province by developing their skills
To enable women to read and write by providing them literacy trainings.
To enable women by vocational skill training programs to start their better living
To aware women of self reliance and active participation in income generation activities and welfare of the country.
To aware women of human rights, women rights and children rights.
To aware women through literacy courses of hygiene, sanitation, health care and first aid in health troubles.
To empower women of the rural areas and urban areas. Immediate Objective:
To enable women to read and write
To enable women to start better living by making, designing and tailoring cloths.

Direct Target:

To train 30 Women from different parts of the province of Logar, Afghanistan

Indirect Target:

To train 300 women of surrounding areas of Logar Afghanistan.

Background:

Afghanistan is a war torn country. This country with 25 years of war, continuous drought condition and prevailing poverty affected the standard of living of people of Afghanistan. Due to these conditions some of the people fled and immigrated into other countries, some of them displaced internally in the country and some of them lost their lives. In general the people of Afghanistan and especially women have lost all the living opportunities.

Pre war women had some skills to make handicrafts and not only sell it in the urban areas to get income but also provide trainings to other family members. But during the war, these people were neither able to make these handicrafts nor to train others and these skills almost disappeared.

Therefore, to empower women and enable them to restart these valuables income generation sources and take active part in their family and community welfare of Afghanistan, literacy and refreshing tailoring courses are essential to be restarted in rural and urban areas of Afghanistan.

To achieve these aims, a reasonable fund of 10,000 $ is required to complete the two types of training courses mentioned above.