Monthly Archives: September 2017

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Training for staff

Every year Nai Qala supports its staff in their professional development by sending them on training courses relevant to their responsibilities.

In August 2017, Mr. Ali Reza successfully completed a 6-day course on organizational development and leadership in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Congratulations!

After the course, Mr. Ali Reza said: “I am sure it is a good and right investment because human resources are the most important resource in an organization and the organization’s success depends on its human resources“.

In 2016 and 2017 local Nai Qala employees participated in more than 25 courses, offering capacity-building in a wide selection of subjects such as advocacy, human resource management, monitoring and evaluation, human rights, English language skills, hygiene, finance, pedagogy, and training in both Early Childhood Education and Community-Based Education.

In order to strengthen organizational capacity, Nai Qala’s president attended and successfully completed a “Future Leaders Program” course held at Wolfson College, Oxford (England) and got a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Modern Management for Non-Profit Organizations, held at Geneva University (Switzerland).

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A sweet tradition in Sokhtagi

Opening ceremony to celebrate the start of construction work at Sokhtagi school.

The first stone was laid down by the chief of Sokhtagi community as well as the provincial education minister.


Local tradition is to wrap the first stone in a red fabric, tied it with a ribbon and have sweets.

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ECD simple hygiene measures

Early Childhood Education program includes basic hygiene measures

During the early childhood education class, children learn how to wash their hands before going to class or before eating. Children are effective communicators and agents of change: they learn the habits of good hygiene at school and pass them on home and in the community. For children, this direct involvement in the promotion of hygiene inculcates a sense of personal capacity building.

According to Unicef, every day about 4,000 children under five die of diarrheal diseases worldwide. Washing hands with soap and water is one of the most effective and cheapest ways to prevent these deaths. Washing hands reduces the number of deaths associated with diarrhea by more than 40% and acute respiratory illness by around 25%.

Promoting good hygiene and health habits early in life can lead to lifelong hygiene behaviors.

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Sokhtagi school construction just started

Construction of the new school building just started in the village of Sokhtagi, with the support of the community

Villagers rented a tractor and prepared the field so that construction could start: 6 meter deep, on a surface of 1300 square meters.

The ceremony for the opening of the construction happened in the presence of the local community, the provincial minister of education and, of course, the girls who will benefit from the new building.

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Capacity building

Nai Qala offers tutoring classes for students who are preparing for the exam entrance to university

To overcome the students’gaps in scientific topics such as mathematics, physics or chemistry, Nai Qala recruited three teachers with a university degree in science to give tutorial classes during the winter break.

200 students from Zeera Gag school have benefited from tutorial classes during 3 month, January-April 2017. The course focused on the preparation for the Kankor examination, the exam for university entrance.

To know more about Nai Qala’s capacity project, click here

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ECD classes have started


New engagement, new horizon of hope:  Early Childhood Development Education (pre-school education).

Over the past 10 years, the Nai Qala Association (NQA) has built schools in regions where children had never even seen a school building. We believe in strengthening their dignity by ensuring that children learn in proper conditions.

Now we are adding a new dimension to our engagement: we are now providing Early Childhood Development (ECD) classes to improve the quality of education for young children aged 5-6 years in the regions where we have built schools.

Dignity through quality learning facilities and quality education is the way forward in rural Afghanistan which accounts for more than 80% of the country’s population.

The ECD program helps children to develop their imagination, talents and confidence at a very young age.

2 pilot ECD classes have started in July