In Afghanistan, It's Time for Sabaq ... A Return to Learning
24/03/2002

Today is the first day of school for the children of Afghanistan - more than 3,000 schools will open. It will be the first time in six years that public education will be freely available to all the children of Afghanistan - girls and boys!

We are very excited about this historic event and wanted to let you know about UNICEF's lead role in this Education Campaign. This is our largest and most complex operation in years - and it's the largest undertaking of its kind anywhere in the world in the field of education.

Beginning now and continuing throughout the year UNICEF will provide about 1.5 million children with books, supplies, learning spaces, and trained teachers.

WHAT UNICEF IS PROVIDING
* 65,000 individual education kits, including student kits for 70
pupils, teachers kits, and Schools-in-a-Box,
* 7 million textbooks, 8 million notebooks, and 18,000 blackboards.
* Setting up and renovating school environments - temporary tented
schools, primary school buildings, home-based schools, etc.
* Training and equipment for 51,000 teachers to teach in about 4,000
learning environments.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
$1 buys two classroom maps of the world.
$50 buys 60 teachers' math books, 8 chalkboards, and training for two teachers.
$300 buys a UNICEF School-in-a-Box kit with enough supplies for 80 students.

Please help us to give the children of Afghanistan - boys AND girls - a chance for a quality education. Please make a donation at;
https://commerce.realimpact.net/usf/supportform_afghanistan.htm

See photographs of UNICEF's programs in Afghanistan;
http://www.unicefusa.org/alert/casia/photo.html#bts

Learn more;
http://www.unicefusa.org/alert/casia/landing.html