Meeting the students of our midwifery course
The present Afghan Government is aware that to run a proper health system it is important that women have a role in the health service, specially in gynecology where, given the restrictions of contacts between adult men and women outside the family, women role is crucial for the well being and welfare of the whole […]
A visit to three old schools in Yakawlang district and in Bamiyan City
During his trip last October 2023 Marco and his friends of Shuhada Organisation also had the opportunity to visit 3 existing schools and assess their needs and eventually some works of maintenance and refurbishing. We decided to pay a visit to Chardeh and Zarin school our biggest only girls’ school with a capacity of about […]
A travel in Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces to inspect our two latest schools
At the beginning of October 2023 Marco travelled to Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces to pay visit to the last two school buildings that Arghosha Committee funded: Lazir grils’ school, established in 2021, and Koshkak Naqshi mixed school, that was erected in 2020. Lazir school’s visit was particularly very moving, with a very warm welcome from […]
A tribute to the Arghosha sanctuary who gave the name to our first school
In October 2023 Marco decided to go back to Afghanistan to assess the situation of our activities there. It was a long travel of 1000km from Nili, in Daikundi province, to Bamiyan. It also took many diversions to visit six schools in four different districts (Nili, Panjab, Yakawlang, Bamiyan). Marco hadn’t been around for 3 […]
Remembering Maria Rosario Lazzati Niada
On February 2, 2022, Maria Rosario, Co-founder of Comitato Arghosha Faraway Schools, left us after a short illness. It was very sad news for all of us because her loss came at a very difficult juncture for Afghanistan, just few months after the fall of the Ashraf Ghani government, supported by the US with a […]
A visit to Sar e Tarnok school
On our way back to Bamiyan, just before dusk and with the snow falling upon us, we managed to pay visit to Sar e Tarnok School. The new building that we funded was inaugurated in 2017. Together with an old structure built some years ago, it hosts over 700 boys and girls. The old structure […]
Zarin girls’ School is becoming a role model in Bamiyan province
On our way back from Largar School, on November 20, we visited Zarin school where a lot of interesting things happened in the last couple of years. A new extension was built in 2018 to host a growing number of girls attending the courses. As one could see from the previous stories that we published, […]
A memorable day for Largar School
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 will be remembered in Largar as a special day. On that sunny and mild day of late autumn, a modern and elegant school building was inaugurated on the very ground where over 500 pupils, mainly girls, were forced for years to study outdoors with their teachers in very disadvantaged conditions. From […]
A visit in August of our representative to Largar school construction
Last August our representative Moustafa Hussaini went to visit the work site of Largar School to check the implementation of the works and was very impressed by the standards adopted and the high quality of local stones and the Iranian iron beams provided for the roof which are of the best quality. The design of […]
Largar school construction has kicked off. A new milestone for Arghosha Committee.
We made it. Another important milestone for Arghosha Faraway Schools was laid down on May 18 in Largar, a village of Shahristan District, part of Daikundi province. On a fair and sunny day the Governor of Daikundi, Mr Sayed Aala Rahmati, announced the start of the works of a primary and secondary school (grade 1 […]