Our Mission
Comitato Arghosha Faraway Schools funds NGOs working in the educational field with the most disadvantaged people in Afghanistan.
Since 2005, when the association funded the construction of the first school in the locality of Arghosha (Bamiyan province), it has been involved in the establishment of 15 more schools; it has helped provide 7,000 students (of whom 5,500 girls) with education and 200 teachers with professional opportunities.
Where We Operate
We promote education in the remotest areas of central Afghanistan.
The Numbers Say it All
7000
pupils attending schools (5500 girls)
15
Schools Built in 17 years
50.000
Serving a Community of 50.000 people
Our news
Lazir girls’ secondary school has been completed
While the internal situation in Afghanistan kept deteriorating, our friends of Shuhada and the villagers of the area around Lazir, in Daikundi province, managed to achieve a real prodigy. The new Lazir school, the 15th that we are financing and the second one built in this remote province, was completed in record time, one month […]
Our girls are back at work at University and internships in Kabul
Covid hasn’t disrupted too seriously the studies of the girls that we are supporting with the University’s scholarships. After an interruption in April- May last year due to a national lockdown, which they spent at their homes in Bamiyan province, the 12 girls studying at Gawharshad University in Kabul managed to go back to the […]
Lazir’s school works are in full progress
Thanks to the enthusiastic support of the local population, works at Lazir’s school are racing ahead. These pictures taken few days before the beginning of Ramadan’s break testify the fast progress that is taking place. The local community volunteered in fact to help levelling the land and to break the local stones which will this […]
Works at Lazir’s girls secondary school (our 15th school) have started
It is always a great emotion to witness the birth of a new school. It is like a human creature coming to this world. In our case, it is about a brand new building which will host a girls’ school, primary and secondary, with 578 pupils from form 1 to 9. It is the 15th […]
Lazir, our 15th school, is on the starting blocks
December 4, 2020, will go down as a memorable day for Arghosha Faraway Schools. It will record our 15th year of commitment to Afghan educational projects. Our 15th year of activity was in fact celebrated with the symbolic inauguration of our 15th school building of Lazir, not very far from Nili, capital of Daikundi province. […]
Koshkak Naqshi secondary school has been inaugurated
It has been one of the most cheerful school inaugurations in recent years and we regretted a lot for not being capable to attend. But restrictions caused worldwide by the Covid pandemic made our trip to Afghanistan virtually impossible. Our joy was nonetheless undiminished when we saw the pictures that were coming from Koshkak Naqshi […]
Happy 15th Anniversary to Arghosha-Kakhdaw, our first school
Fifteen years ago, on September 11, 2015, we inaugurated our first school in Kakhdaw, a beautiful place in a valley close to the locality of Arghosha, 2o km north of te legendary Band-e Amir lakes. It was a very touching moment fo us. It was the first school structure that we were funding and building with […]
Koshkak Naqshi school building is completed
The bulk of the work is done. It is just about putting the finishing touches inside the building, some plaster and the blackboards, and bring in the furniture that will be delivered soon. It looks like a miracle. When the pandemic of Covid-19 enter Afghanistan from Iran at the beginning of the spring, the perspective […]
Koshkak Naqshi School is growing rapidly
It is written on the keyboard. Works started in May and completion is planned in 7 months time that is next November. From the images that we have received a couple of weeks ago in mid July, we have no reason to doubt that as usual our Afghan friends will honour their commitment as they […]
Zarin School’s greenery is really getting greener
We are so proud to witness the fluorishing of the new greenery at Zarin School. Our pilot project is working thanks to the commitment of the principal, Mr Mohammed Akbar Khan supported by the teachers and the villagers and with the invaluable help of Shuhada Organisation. An incredible team work of passionate and committed people […]