Education as a Ray of Hope for Afghan Girls

"The topics that I learned in this course will help me to understand advanced topics easily. I can apply this knowledge in my personal coding projects and future job opportunities in the tech field.

I will miss the good moments in class, the stories we shared, and your [trainer] voice. Looking back at every moment in class, I feel that they were filled with meaningful memories and experiences that I deeply appreciate. Thank you once again for your guidance and support." Student of the Python course, in an email to the trainer.

Throughout the year 2025, our programme remained aligned with our 2023–2027 strategy and its two central pillars: online vocational training in English, coding, and web development for young women, and support for primary education through Community Based Education (CBE) classes and public schools in four districts of Kabul province.

Between January and December 2025, 11 online training modules were delivered covering English (from intermediate to advanced), web design, java, python, database and SQL. Overall, 237 participants enrolled and 184 completed the training with a drop-out rate of 22%. 

In parallel, in primary education we supported 3,223 children to complete their academic year (78% girls) of whom: 

• 373 children completed grade 4 in the 13 CBE classes we support while 39 dropped school during the year (representing 10% of the initial group) and 
• 2,850 children did the same in our classes in the 15 public primary schools we support. 630 dropped school during the year (representing 18% of initial enrolment). 

Our work is possible because every year, we hire, monitor and upskill 96 teachers (70 in public schools and 26 in the CBE classes). 

Finally, we conducted a small-scale assessment of the tech sector in Afghanistan with a focus on Kabul. 

Our programme in 2025 continued to be aligned with our strategy and the two main pillars of work: online English, coding and web development classes for young women, and primary education for children in four main districts in Kabul province (Panghman, Char Asyab, Bagrami and Khak-e-Jabar). In both cases, we were able to expand our work and to improve our effectiveness on the ground.

In parallel, we continued to engage with other actors in the sector including ACBAR (an umbrella body for INGOs and NGOs in Afghanistan) and the Education cluster co-chaired by Save the Children and UNICEF. Engaging with our network both in collegial settings as well as in one-to-one conversations proved very important to discover new ways to deliver projects and to overcome obstacles.

All in all, in 2025, we organised eight English, coding and web development courses of different durations for approx. 180 students. Of them 120 already completed the training, while the others are still enrolled in their courses that are expected to end in February 2026. We also supported primary education for 386 children (72% girls) in 13 community based education classes and for 3,422 children in 15 public schools (80% girls). Moreover, in the first quarter of 2025, taking advantage of the official school holidays (in Afghanistan the academic year runs from the end of March to the end of November), we completed the activities that were pending from 2024: two online courses in English and the academic year of grade 3rd for our 8 community based education classes.