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Afghan Institute of Learning  The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) Since 1996 Impact 9 million Students 275,298 Centers 326 Teachers Trained 19,886 Civil Society Members Trained 8,436 Patients 1,488,722 Health Education 2,044,559 Trained in Health Workshops 8,888 Year 2011 Served Annually 420,432 Students 19,205 Medical Clinics 5 Learning Centers 29 Afghans Employed 480  by Wendy Maharry |
__Afghan Institute of LearningCreating Hope International (CHI) has been helping the Afghan people for over 30 years and since 1996 by working closely with the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) in refugee camps and Afghan communities. CHI empowers Afghans by providing support to AIL’s programs of health and educational services, community building, leadership and human rights and culture revival.
CHI has a close relationship with AIL under a technical assistance agreement and provides direct services as well as training with administration, finance, program strategy, fundraising, budgeting, reporting and proposal writing.  AIL has grown markedly since 2001 to become internationally recognized and is one of the largest Afghan women-led NGOs providing health and education services to women and children each year. Based on its own success in communities, AIL is now able to offer training and technical assistance to small local Afghan community-based organizations to help further build the capacity of Afghanistan’s civil society sector.
CHI has helped AIL to increase its annual funding from US $30,000 in 2001 to over $1million today. CHI works to build the capacity of AIL to procure its own funding improving AIL staff skills in management, book keeping and finances. CHI representatives travel to Afghanistan and provide intensive training to AIL staff on various topics related to NGO operations.  CHI staff have also provided advanced teacher training to AIL teacher trainers. AIL is now considered the preeminent teacher training organization for Afghans. CHI has helped develop training curriculum with culturally relevant human rights education, health education, and counseling materials. CHI has trained AIL staff in human rights and helped AIL to successfully introduce human rights training to Afghan women in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
CHI also runs an Education and Health Afghanistan Project click here for more |
AIL CONFERENCE ON LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
Herat April 8-9,2012
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 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 responded to these requests by holding an International Conference on Love and Forgiveness that will be shared throughout the country and internationally via film. This conference focused on the study of Afghan poets and musicians, particularly the work of Mawlana (Rumi). Participating in the conference were poets, writers, Sufis and government representatives from all parts of Afghanistan and the world.
Joining the Conference, in person, or via film or writings:
· 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.
