HOPE Community Centre

( a programme of HOPE worldwide Afghanistan)

Equipping today’s underprivileged youth with Vocational Skills

FACT SHEET

HOPE Community

Centre

A community based programme of HOPE worldwide Afghanistan

disseminating vocational skills to the needy Afghan youth.

Established in July 2012, until Dec 2015, the centre has produced

352 graduates (178 in Computers and 174 in Communication English)

and many have found jobs.

SKILLS OFFERED Communication English & Computer Skill Training for Youth.

PURPOSE To provide afghan youth with vocational skills, enabling them with

better employment prospects, thus break the cycle of poverty.

GOAL To train 150 students in 2016 (60 in Comm. English and 90 in

Computers Skills)

BUDGET Total Annual budget US$33,759

Funding required for the current year US$ 23,000

TARGET POPULATION

Dehdana Darul Aman, district 7th, Kabul, Afghanistan

The district has a total household population of 40,000 within the

radius of 4 Km out of which Afghan youth will be approx. 8800.

RATIONALE:

Afghanistan - devastated by three decades of war, unrest and poverty. There is a constant

threat to life and well-being because of political and economic instability. The future of Afghan

youth looms largely due to lack of equal educational opportunities and widespread poverty, Afghan

youth’s right to employability continues to be just on paper.

There are about 823,000* Afghan youth unemployed and about 400,000 are added each year

to those numbers, who are waiting to be employed. But many of them are not job-ready as they

lack skills required by the industry.

The need of the hour is to make Afghan youth employable, and equip them with needed

vocational skills which will make them employable. *Study on the State of Employment in Afghanistan –May 2012 ILO

A chance to bring hope and change the lives of youth in a war torn country

FUTURE PLANS include sewing and tailoring skills to the vocational skill with funding

availability of US$ 5500/-

To impact 150 Afghan

students in 2016

Since July 2012, 352

Students have

graduated

from the training

centre

Testimonial from the HOPE community Centre:

“Many painful stories could have a happy ending”

Zai Ahmad and his ten siblings used to help their father in his

farm in their home province of Logar. Their father understood the need

for education so ensured his children went to school. But due to the

continuous conflict and insecurity in the area they lived, they made the

tough decision to move to the (relative) safety of Kabul. It was painful

for them to leave their home, their friends and their livelihood and

move to strange and daunting place. But there was one blessing. The

older children could enter higher education, something not available in

Logar, and Zai, earned himself a place at Kabul University to study for

a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Determined to succeed in order to help support his family, Zai found and joined the HOPE

community center to learn English language and computer skills. There are commercial

organisations offering this in Kabul but there is no way Zai could have afforded to attend one.

With the skills Zai learnt at the HOPE community center, Zai was recently accepted as a

teacher in a local school. The US$92 / GB£60 he earns each month enables him to start

supporting his family while he continues his studies.

Zai continually expresses his gratitude for the HOPE community center for providing him

with the necessary skills to enable him to help his family while helping the children of Kabul,

and to do so while studying for a career that he hopes will give him the tools to help many

others. Reflecting on his life to date and his prospects for the future Zai stated,

“every successful person has a painful story but every painful story can have a

successful ending”.

Implemented by HOPE worldwide Afghanistan,

founded in April 2001 and is a registered NGO with the Ministry of Economy (registration #47). Over the past

15 years, HOPE worldwide Afghanistan has completed numerous works in the areas of healthcare, education,

orphan care, construction, and community based

irrigation programs.

Contact Information

Afghanistan:

HOPE worldwide Afghanistan,

HOPE community Centre, Fatihakhwani Street, Dehdana Darul Aman, 7th district, Kabul,

Afghanistan 1004. (mahaveer.jain@hopeww.org ; Mobile: +91-88609-06950)

US:

HOPE worldwide Ltd.1285 Drummers Lane, Suite 105, Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087-1572.

Hope.worldwide@hopeww.org

UK:

HOPE worldwide UK, 360 City Road, London EC1V 2PY, Tel: 07951 379 973

wil.horwood@hopeworldwide.org.uk

Australia:

HOPE worldwide (Australia) Ltd, No: 19 Chandler Rd, Glen Waverley, VIC 3150.

+61 (434) 168 945 , Mark_Timlin@hopeww.org

Like Zai, we aim to impact the lives of 90 youth every year!