Khaled hosseini educational systems
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Your support in 2018 allowed us to provide over $350,000 to programs providing education, healthcare and resettlement / refugee assistance to women and children in Afghanistan.
Humanitarian support in 2018 aided many worthwhile programs, among them education programs in Ghazni Province through Afghan Friends Network, healthcare in Darulaman Afshar District through Alliance for Medical Outreach and life saving aid to refugees through the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
In 2018, The Khaled Hosseini Foundation supported the Khurasan Learning Center for Girls and the Women’s Literacy program in Ghazni. Results of the programs included:
- Providing education to approximately 400 girls at the KLC Learning Center, where girls in grades 7-12 receive supplementary education to complete their education in Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English.
- Allowing 89 of the KLC students to prepare for and pass the Konkor exam with a pass rate of 94%. The Konkor exam is required to be able to receive a higher education and the national average is a 56% pass rate.
- 33 students will attend a 4-year public university, 29 will attend a private university and 20 will attend a 2-year college, such as
the Teacher Training Institute.
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Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
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By Jemima Ajayi
In November 2020, as part of the preparation for my Spanish interpreting class, I was researching Fairtrade just to pick up vocabulary that I could add to my glossary for the topic. Whilst on the Fairtrade Foundation’s website, I came across an article called ‘Why it’s time to decolonise the curriculum and diversify learning’. The title caught my attention, and the first line states that ‘research revealed that young people in England could leave secondary school without studying a novel or play written by a non-white author’. This struck me greatly because up until that moment I had never realised that, and it was a statement that was very true for my own education. I took both Drama and English Literature at GCSE and I continued with Drama for A-Levels, and amongst Shakespeare, Priestley and Steinbeck, not once did we study plays or books written by a person of colour – in other words, someone who looked like me. The curriculum did not reflect the diverse student population of my school, let alone the demographics and realities of the country. Looking into AQA’s current curriculum for AS and A-Level English Literature, out of the many novelists and poets on the list of recommended works, the African American author Alice Walker and the Indian author Arundhat