Dasht-e-Safid girls’ school has been inaugurated. A leap forward for Arghosha committee
Kahmard district of Bamiyan province, one of the most disadvantaged of all Afghanistan, has made a big progress in the educational field. Thanks to a successful cooperation between Comitato Arghosha Faraway Schools and Shuhada Organisation with the strong support from the local authorities, on January the 6th, in the village of Dasht-e-Shafid, a girls’ school […]
Kahmard girls’ school is growing fast
Late to start, with the ground breaking ceremony taking place at the beginning of August, the construction works of our new girls’ school for 400 pupils at Dash e Shevid, Kahmard district, Bamiyan province, are catching up with growing momentum. A water well of 80m of depth has been dug and water has been reaches […]
The new girls’ school in Dasht e Sefid, Kahmard district, is on its way
August 7, 2024 (Safar 3, 1446 AH) will go down to Arghosha’s history as a memorable day. The Governor of Bamiyan province, Abdullah Sarhadi (pictured while cutting the inauguration ribbon), wanted to come personally to lead the ground-breaking ceremony of our new girls’ school in Dasht e Sivid in Kahmard district. His presence […]
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, […]