Let's Start an Afghan Class

Hello from Liberty, Missouri! My husband and I are retired educators, still interested in children. I became FB friends with Musa Anwari about three years ago when he was a second-year Doctoral Student in Med School. We were both feeling sad about the assassination of Dr. Tetsu Nakamura from Japan who was in Afghanistan working for the people. Then the Taliban came into power last August and upended the country. Schools have closed since the teachers are not being paid, and many people are starving. Musa began helping hand out the gifts of food sent to his country. Now he has the vision of starting schools all around Afghanistan for the children who have become orphans because of the wars and for those whose schools have closed.

Musa tells me that for $300, he and his group can set up a 4-month school supplying the children with texts and supplies plus a small salary for a teacher. Leroy and I sent money through Moneygram, and Musa picked it up and started a school the next day where it was needed. I thought you would like to be a part of preparing Afghanistan for its future by helping educate the children. Thank you for your help! --June Seat

For more information, read two excerpts of Musa's Facebook posts below:

It was the final day of our four-month learning class for those orphan children who lost their parents in the last decade of wars. During this duration they were able to read,write and calculate. It was their 1st time that they got such an opportunity of getting education. Our country will develop if we work with millions of children like them who are deprived from getting education.

Our dream is to see our children educated like the children of developed countries.Our little struggles will bring a lot of changes one day because we are investing in children, who are the backbone of our country. We are doing all these efforts while doors of schools toward many children are closed. We are giving them hope to think differently by providing them free education irrespective of their gender. I call on everyone to educate these children. ---Musa Anwari

Today we opened our 5th learning makeshift school in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Most of the students are girls because we believe that when girls become educated they will stand against every brutality, they will train our future generation and they will not let them become the fuel of wars. We hope that one day our students will be representing Afghanistan on different platforms and will be bringing pride to Afghanistan.---Musa Anwari

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