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Our Mission
To actively assist, support and participate in helping the children in Afghanistan
by addressing their educational and public health needs.
Partnership for the Education of Children in Afghanistan
Building Peace, One School at a Time
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Dig It!! We now have a Well!!
Water is essential to life and yet for years our staff and students have been hauling water to school, as they have prioritized education over water. Khost is extremely rocky and the failure rate of well companies to find water is a frequent occurrence. After putting out a bid for this project, we selected a local company that the community trusted and one that had a decent track record.
After several broken drills, bent machinery, hitting huge amounts of rock, swinging between hope and despair, 145 meters (one hundred and forty five) of grim determination later, they found water. Then they dug another fifteen meters before being satisfied that the water will flow and flow constantly. The next steps were to get a generator, a pump, a tank for storage, and a house to protect the well.
A student wrote to us and said: "We used to study our lessons in our school when it had no surrounding wall, no windows, no doors, no chairs and no water. Some times in the past some students would become unconscious because of thirst and some became sick because of drinking unhealthy water. But now that time is gone and we have clean drinking water and our classes have doors and windows. We hope we get continued support from the people of USA."
Vocational Training Center Launched
As we educate the children of Afghanistan, we need to be cognizant of the fact that we graduate children who can earn a living, that we are more than a "certificate mill". As not all graduates will enter college, the Afghanistan Ministry of Education stresses the need for Technical and Vocational Education and Training. The Ministry states:
"...The Afghan labor market currently faces an acute demand for skilled and semi-skilled people in order to cope with the rapid pace of reconstruction, even though unemployment levels are high in the country. This is hampering reconstruction at several levels and is likely a factor in local instability..."
In May of 2010, P.E.C.A will initiate this program by selecting 10 boys and 10 girls on a 3 months training program - computer repairs for the boys and tailoring for the girls. Each graduate will receive a tool kit at the end of the program, and each will pay back half the price of the tool kit over a period of two years.
