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Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women

by Afghan Institute of Learning
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women

Project Report | Apr 5, 2012
Sharing Good News

By Toc Dunlap | Executive Director, Creating Hope International

Since 1995, the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) has been helping Afghans lift themselves above the devastation of war by providing education, training, health care, and health education.  AIL’s approach is to interlink health and education programs, like building blocks that together form a whole structure.  While delivering these basic services AIL has also been able to promote critical thinking skills and model and teach human rights, women’s rights, peace, democracy, and leadership. With new skills and information, Afghans are becoming empowered and hopeful. Through your financial support, you have been a part of these seeds of systemic change.

Through the natural progression that exists when people begin to think for themselves, AIL often receives requests from Afghans who want to find ways to work together to promote love, understanding, and forgiveness to their people in order to return to a peaceful way of life; the way of their country’s history.  Supported by Fetzer Institute,  AIL is responding to these requests by holding an International Conference on Love and Forgiveness this Spring that will be shared throughout the country and internationally via film.  This conference will focus on the study of Afghan poets and musicians, particularly the work of Mawlana (Rumi).  Participating in the conference will be poets, writers, Sufis and government representatives from all parts of Afghanistan and the world.

 Joining the Conference, in person, or via film or writings, are:

  • Poet Coleman Barks; known as the pre-eminent translator of Rumi, the great 13th century poet and teacher.  Mr. Barks’ writings and translations have filled 15 books that are more popular than other renderings of these ancient words.  They make Rumi’s raptures accessible to the world beyond their creation.
  • Stephen Olsson, President of CEM Productions, has produced and directed documentary films, television series and feature news reports throughout the world for US and European broadcasters.  He also produced and directed: Afghanistan: The Fight For A Way of Life, which was broadcast throughout the world and cited by The New York Times as one of the best documentary films of the year.
  • Divine Mother Audrey Kitagawa, a former attorney, practiced in Honolulu for twenty years, and became the spiritual leader of The Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family, a worldwide community based in Hawaii. Divine Mother Audrey is a prolific writer on matters of spirituality and multiculturalism and serves on many global, spiritual and UN advisory boards, including as Advisor to the World Federation of United Nations Associations.

AIL invites you to join Afghans in thought and through your own study of music and poetry that brings us all closer to the peaceful world we endeavor to achieve.

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Mar 1, 2012
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By Toc Dunlap | Executive Director, Creating Hope International

Dec 22, 2011
A Great Number of Women Reached

By Toc Dunlap | Executive Director, Creating Hope International

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Afghan Institute of Learning

Location: Dearborn, Michigan - USA
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Twitter: @AIL_ngo
Project Leader:
Sakena Yacoobi
Founder & CEO
Dearborn , Michigan United States
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