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1172020 Spring News Bulletin

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OUR COVID 19 RESPONSE

CW4WAfghan is playing a vital role in Afghanistans strategy for dealing withthe virus from sharing our expertise with digital learning resources totranslating materials on effective hygiene and hand washing While our Kabuloffice is closed and our staff are working from home we remain active inmaintaining our regular projects and supporting the national Covid-19response We are working closely with the Ministry of Education to developresources including a comic about hand washing and prevention of virusspread supports for kids and parents and brainstorming distance educationsolutions that will work in Afghanistanrsquos context during this pandemic andbeyond Thanks to a new grant from the Chamandy Foundation which youllread about below we will also provide psychological supports to students andteachers impacted by the trauma of these events

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NEW SUPPORTS COMING TO FATEMA TUL ZAHRA SCHOOLLast week we received exciting news from the Chamandy Foundation of asuccessful grant application This funding will allow us to provide the services ofa physician and a psychologist to the girls attending FTZ school in Kabulsupports which are all the more vital in this time of public health crisis and themental health challenges the pandemic is bringing Thank you ChamandyFoudation for your donation supporting our mission to set Afghan girls on apath to lifelong success and wellbeing

NEW UZBEKI LANGUAGE RESOURCES On 6 April we received another donation of childrens books from HoopoeBooks with support from the Institute for Cross-Cultural Exchange (ICE) Morethan a thousand volumes in Dari-Uzbeki translation were donated and will beused by schools in Takhar province Huge thanks to Hoopoe Books and ICE forthe generous support and for promoting literacy in Afghanistan

VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDOur digital library Darakht-e Danesh needs volunteer translators now morethan ever to keep up with increased demand for content while students are




schooling from home during the Covid 19 lockdown in Afghanistan While wealways have a need for DariFarsi speaking volunteers we have a shortage oftranslators in other languages as well Our new postcard pictured belowfocuses on these languages Its available in both digital form for social mediasharing as well as printed form If youd like some print copies to distributeplease contact us infodarakhtdaneshorg

A BUSY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY Many CW4WAfghan celebrations and events were heldin March both in Canada and Afghanistan to markInternational Womens Day 2020 Read on for details




Staff at our Kabul office marked International Womens Day on 8th March with abeautiful cake What an important celebration of our female staff as role models andof all the work they do for women and girls who benefit from our programs

A brilliant evening in Sechelt BC on Monday March 3rd for the week of InternationalWomens Day hosted by the local chapter of the Canadian Federation of UniversityWomen and the Sechelt Public Library CW4WAfghan executive director LaurynOates spoke to the audience about the courage of women and girls in Afghanistanseeking an education and Vancouver Chapter Products Team did some brisk salesThanks to CFUW Sechelt and the Sechelt Public Library for having us and to thosewho came to attend for their generosity and interest

Margie and Kim hosted a Breaking Bread Dinner at Margies home inCalgary on March 8th to celebrate International Womens Day Featuringa potluck Buddha bowl dinner and build-your-own sundaes the event




gathered attendees who were mostly first time supporters Margie and hermother have been past Breaking Bread attendees Margie says we hopethat the funds raised can make a difference in the lives of women inAfghanistan Thanks for caring about women and girls in Afghanistanand helping us expand our message and support base Margie and Kim

Congratulations to Women of Halton Action Movement (WHAM) who hosted aspectacular annual Dinner Party in Oakville ON on March 4th a fundraiser forCW4WAfghan and Sexual Assualt and Violence Intervention Services ofHalton (SAVIS) held each year in honour of International Womens DayThe sold out event included a huge silent auctionraffle the one and only Sally Armstrong on handto sign her latest book and our executive directorLauryn Oates giving the evening keynote Thegenerous community of Halton came together tostand up and be counted as people who careabout the achievements and challenges ofwomen and girls in Canada and around theworld What a night Thanks to WHAM titlesponsor the Elementary Teachers Federation ofOntario (ETFO) all the sponsors and donorspartners and guests

A huge thanks to Kristen Grovue who last month hosted a successfulBreaking Bread event with the Calgary Pelvic Health Physiotherapy InterestGroup The dinner was combined with an educational session for pelvic healthphysiotherapists raising $1650 for girls and womens education inAfghanistan CW4WAfghan Senior Director Murwarid Ziayee spoke at thisevent which took place in Calgary




CW4WAfghans London Ontario Chapter hosted its Second Annual BreakingBread event on March 7th Congratulations to chapter chairs Annette and Dora whodid a fabulous job hosting and organizing thedelicious Afghan meal at the Bamiyan Restaurantalong with a market place They spoke eloquently and

passionately abouttheir commitment toeducation andCW4WAfghans workwhile our executive director Lauryn Oates was onhand to talk about the difference CW4WAfghansupporters are making on the ground and howinvesting in the education of girls and women is themost potent vaccination against poverty war andunderdevelopment Next up Dora and Annette areplanning an Afghan cooking class as soon as in-person events resume Stay tuned for details

CONTRIBUTING OUR SUCCESS STORIES TO THEDIALOGUE CW4WAfghan contributed a case study to a recent BCCouncil for International Cooperation publicationLeveraging the Interlinkages Gender EqualityWomens Empowerment and the Sustainable Development GoalsWritten by our Executive Director Lauryn Oates and Senior DirectorMurwarid Ziayee the case study focuses on our AfghanistanLowaleeAfghanistan Reads project You can read the full reporthere starting on page 34

A greeting from Sarah our new Community Engagement CoordinatorHello I am excited to have joined a team of suchenergetic and committed people at CW4WAfghan andlook forward to connecting with you all in my new roleWorking for an organization like this means a lot to meas I have spent the last two decades supporting womenaffected by conflict and violence Before joiningCW4WAfghan I managed projects on womens healthand gender based violence for refugee organizations inCanada and in East and Central Africa Mexico Iraq and




Turkey I was a founding faculty member of Iraqi Kurdistans first independentbilingual university where I helped to coordinate peace training initiatives andworked with Iraqi NGOs and the UN during my two years living in the countryIm passionate about human rights and gender responsive development andexcited to draw on the courageous stories of Afghan women and girls and thecreativity and enthusiasm of chapter members to help grow our support baseand message Id love to hear from you with suggestions concerns or just for achat communitycw4wafghanca

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NEW SUPPORTS COMING TO FATEMA TUL ZAHRA SCHOOLLast week we received exciting news from the Chamandy Foundation of asuccessful grant application This funding will allow us to provide the services ofa physician and a psychologist to the girls attending FTZ school in Kabulsupports which are all the more vital in this time of public health crisis and themental health challenges the pandemic is bringing Thank you ChamandyFoudation for your donation supporting our mission to set Afghan girls on apath to lifelong success and wellbeing

NEW UZBEKI LANGUAGE RESOURCES On 6 April we received another donation of childrens books from HoopoeBooks with support from the Institute for Cross-Cultural Exchange (ICE) Morethan a thousand volumes in Dari-Uzbeki translation were donated and will beused by schools in Takhar province Huge thanks to Hoopoe Books and ICE forthe generous support and for promoting literacy in Afghanistan

VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDOur digital library Darakht-e Danesh needs volunteer translators now morethan ever to keep up with increased demand for content while students are





























































































































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