Teach For Afghanistan places passionate university graduates as teaching 'Fellows' in high-need rural schools. For 10 years, we have kept 140,000+ children learning, trained 540+ exceptional leaders, and cut dropout rates in over 200 schools despite compounding crises. Now we need your help to expand high-quality educational access to all Afghan children.
Afghanistan faces a severe education crisis on three fronts. Nine million children are out of school, most of them girls. 110,000 teaching positions are vacant. Even where teachers show up, 57% are unqualified and lack the basic resources needed to deliver high-quality learning. Poverty, insecurity, and a brain drain of over six million educated Afghans since 2021 compound every layer of this crisis. All of these point to a lost generation, stripped of their right to quality education.
We recruit top Afghan graduates, train them intensively, and place them as 'Fellows' for two years in the highest-need rural schools across Nangarhar, Parwan, and Laghman provinces. We fund home-based learning for children who cannot reach a classroom, and equip schools with the required materials. Half of our Fellows and coaches are female, and are placed in districts that have never had a qualified female teacher. Every dollar goes directly into Afghan classrooms. All this is done lawfully.
TAO's 540+ alumni are already teachers, principals, civil society leaders, and government representatives reshaping Afghanistan from within. We are scaling to all 34 Afghan provinces by 2036. When a child gets a quality education, the impact compounds for generations. In a country the world has called a "forgotten crisis", we have never stopped: not through war, earthquakes, or funding cuts. And with your support, we never will.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
