PROJECTS
Char Gul Tepa School
After finishing our first school house in december 2005 in Char Gul Tepa we starting a new school project for the girls of the township. The initiative “Schools for Afghanistan” (Schulen für Afghanistan) is going to build an elementary and grammar girl school in the township of Char Gul in the district Qalay-i-Zal near Kunduz. This will enable the learning and teaching for approximately 600 afghan girls and 20 teachers. Although the school is state-approved the conditions of learning and teaching are desolate due to the economic and educational conditions.
Though lessons are given since spring 2002, this takes place in open air, on a meadow beneath the village. The children are sitting on the ground without having books, excercise-books, or pencils. A few straw mats are the only shelter against sun or rain. The building of the school house will be done together with craftsmen from Kunduz and the inhabitants of the village.
During the first project phase the building with 8 classrooms and the teachers’ room will be put up on the treeless meadow on which the lessons are given at the moment. During the second project phase we would like to equip the school with furniture, teaching and learning aids. In the long run we want to support further education of teachers in order to improve the quality of the education.
In our opinion the qualified knowledge of the afghan women and men should be used for the reconstruction of their destroyed homeland. Personal responsibility and helping people to help themselves are the key for sustainable success of projects like this one. Therefore, one aim of the initiative is to employ only afghan specialists and workers.
The county of Kunduz and Char Gul
The township of Char Gul is located in the county of Kunduz in the north of Afghanistan close to the border to Tadzhikistan. In this region mainly Tadzhiks, Hazara, and Uzbeks live. Besides the traditionally working craftsmen there are mainly peasant are living in the Kunduz province. They grow among others cotton, wheat, rice, corn, and melons in the fruitful plain of the Kunduz river. The economic conditions are relatively good and the region is know as the granary of Afghanistan, but the destroyed infrastructure retards the development drastically. Roadworks and the drinking water supply are the most urgent tasks.
The provincial capital Kunduz is located about 250 kilometres north of Kabul and is inhabited by 121,000 people (jan. 2004). Kunduz is deemed to be the centre of the four north eastern provinces Kunduz, Badakshan, Baghlan, and Takhar, in which about 3.2 million people are living. The town Kunduz is supplied with electricity from Tadzhikistan but many parts of the province do not have electricity. Kunduz airport is still in parts damaged but can be approached.
The Qalay-i-Zal community consists of some small villages in which all together circa 30,000 people are living. Here as well most parts of the infrastructure like streets, electricity and drinking water supply are not present. According to the department of education there are about 280 state-approved schools in the county of Kunduz of which only 80 possess a school building.
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