Through its  Home School Program, AIL kept education for girls alive during the Taliban regime.

AIL provided grade 1 through 8 education for girls in an underground system. Underground home schools were the only educational option available to these girls for more than four years.

In 2001 (the last year of the underground home schools), AIL had 3,000 girls in 80 home schools in Jalalabad, Kabul, Herat, and Logar.

AIL had trained more than 80 teachers for the schools.

Mobile libraries in Herat and Jalalabad transported reading material between the underground schools.

AIL had also begun health programs in Kabul and Jalalabad and an income generating skills class in Herat.

The underground schools and health programs gave hope to the students, the community, and the nation.

AIL worked with community members to realize their common desire to keep education alive in Afghanistan by allowing some girls to continue their education. Community members cooperated with each other and AIL to secure space for the schools and to ensure that the schools, teachers, and students could teach and learn safely.