Your Sponsorship Can Help Change an Afghan Child’s Life Forever!
Why your support is critical
Knowledge is Power
 In Afghanistan, the ability for children to successfully complete their basic education is challenging. There are significant pressures on families to have their sons begin working or for their daughters to enter into early marriage, both of which bring the family additional money. In addition, there are religious and political fanatics in the country working against the education of children and are doing everything they can, because a knowledgeable population is their enemy and their eventual demise.
Despite these incredible challenges, most parents want to see their sons and daughters attend school and grow up to become productive citizens. Afghan children themselves have an incredible desire to learn and obtain an education. They are bright, energetic, many have career goals, and they are brave – in some areas of the country, literally risking their young lives for the opportunity to learn. How many of them will have the opportunity to pursue those goals will largely depend on their ability to remain in school.
That’s where you, our donors come in. Your sponsorship makes it possible for us to do our work: establishing schools where children have a safe, nurturing learning environment; providing quality educational programs that provide children critical skills, ideas, and values; competent teachers to inspire children to want to learn more; and building community ownership where parents and community leaders take a vested interest in their school and educational welfare of their children – who are tomorrow’s leaders.
Become an HTAC Sponsor!
We offer two meaningful sponsorship opportunities; school sponsorship and program sponsorship.
School Sponsorship
When you become a school sponsor, your contributions will go towards providing many of the essential physical resources needed to foster a safe, clean, and nurturing learning environment. Your donations go to help pay for the following items:
- Hygiene Kits
- Chairs and Desks
- Planting a School Garden (students will help maintain)
- Building a Playground
- Purchase of a generator (as electricity is often inconsistent)
Program Sponsorship
When you become a program sponsor, your contributions go towards providing the necessary training, equipment, materials, and instruction that are crucial in delivering and sustaining our innovative educational programs.
- Computer Education – computer lab; Microsoft Windows, Word, & Excel instruction
- Peace Education – provides children with non-violent ways to resolve conflicts
- Environmental education – teaches children to take care of their local environment
- “Read Afghanistan” – bi-lingual, illustrated storybooks custom-designed for HTAC
- Community School Committees – builds community ownership of schools/programs
- Cultural exchange – exchanges between U.S. and Afghan schools
- Teacher Training – providing qualified, competent teachers for every student
Donate:
$25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000, $2500, other ______, to support of schools or programs
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Making a Difference – Meet Tooba
 My name is Tooba; daughter of Ghulam Rabbani. I am a student of class 3C at Badakhshi Girls School in the Nejrab District of Kapisa Province. To receive an education means everything to me. I am grateful to all the generous people who supported the building of our beautiful school, our computer lab and our ability to learn the computer, and the wonderful teachers who care about providing us with our education.
 Elaha is a bright 11 year old girl living in the province of Kapisa. For a while, Elaha attended Jamal Agha Girls School, but then the Taliban came to her town and destroyed her school – as they forbid girls from getting an education. Elaha was heartbroken for she loved going to school. For a while, a few brave local members of the community secretly set up informal classes and Elaha and several other girls moved from house to house, but the well intentioned teachers had little formal education themselves and the instruction was poor. Some students began to go to better schools located in distant places.
Help the Afghan Children was able to rebuild Jamal Agha Girls School – a beautiful 2-story building with all the necessary school facilities, equipment, and supplies. Elaha was ecstatic about returning to school, even though she had lost several years of schooling. She soon became the number one student in her class with her favorite subjects being Biology and Mathematics. Her dream is to now become a doctor.
Benefits of becoming a sponsor –
- Your contributions are earmarked to support one of our schools or programs.
- By regularly checking our website and/or newsletter, you will be able to see how your contributions are enhancing HTAC’s work.
- You gain the personal satisfaction of helping to make a difference for so many Afghan girls and boys.
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." (Chinese proverb)
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