by Ehsan Bayat | Aug 20, 2015 | Afghanistan, Bayat Foundation, Education, Philanthropy
Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / CC BY With financial support from the World Bank, the Afghanistan ICT Sector Development Project at the Rana Education Institute in Kabul offers intensive information technology (IT) training that emphasizes both theoretical and...
by Ehsan Bayat | Aug 18, 2015 | Bayat Foundation, Philanthropy, women
Image by ResoluteSupportMedia / CC BY The founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, Dr. Sakena Yacoobi has championed literacy, quality education, and health care by training 11 million people. Her institute has become one of the largest employers of women in...
by Ehsan Bayat | Jul 13, 2015 | Afghanistan, Bayat Foundation
More than 80 percent of women living in Afghanistan cannot read or write. The nonprofit Skateistan takes a unique approach to this issue by engaging young girls through an exhilarating activity: skateboarding. Founded by an Australian named Oliver Percovich,...
by Ehsan Bayat | Jul 7, 2015 | Afghanistan, Bayat Foundation
In 2011, college students Anita Haidary and Noorjahan Akbar joined forces to start the first Afghan nongovernmental organization consisting of young women. The organization Young Women for Change (YWC) is comprised of dozens of male and female advocates from across...
by Ehsan Bayat | Jul 3, 2015 | Afghanistan, Bayat Foundation
In June, 34 donor countries came together to pledge a new aid package for Afghanistan. The $2.8 billion in pledged funding will be funneled through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) over the course of the next three years. The package was finalized when...
by Ehsan Bayat | Jul 1, 2015 | Afghanistan, Bayat Foundation
In 2003, the Afghan government called for the establishment of the Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA), an organization that allows both government agencies and foreign donors to support the nation’s microfinance sector. The organization...
