Young Afghan Professionals For Reconstr & Develop Of Afghanistan

Programs: Elementary and secondary education:in 2012 the a4t #1 school, a private school in kabul, had over 280 students, mostly girls in grades kindergarten through 10th grade, 1st through 7th grades for boys, and employed on average a staff of 25. It is ranked second among private schools in the district by the ministry of education. It continued to follow the curriculum of the ministry of education and also provided computers for computer courses for the students. It had 80 students enrolled in its winter program of academic classes from january 1 to mid-march. In march a4t submitted a letter to the ministry of education requesting a change in the school's ownership, which was approved. A4t transferred the entire school with all its assets to the new all-afghan board (a4t school principal, vice principal and 3 senior teachers) starting march 1, 2012, and continued its financial and administrative support up to may 31, 2012. The new board has been responsible for all academic and financial matters since the full transfer of the school on june 1, 2012. The name of the school was officially changed to farda-e-afghanan private school (tomorrow's afghans). The a4t girls home schools in sheik yassin, wardak province provided elementary education to more than 177 girl students in 5 home schools. Grades 1 through 7 follow the curriculum of the ministry of education. A council of school principals in wardak province held meetings with the a4t principal monthly to discuss improving their schools. The girls home school was closed for the winter and classes began again on march 23,2012. Books and stationary were provided by the ministry of education in march, 2012. The dudley family grant (stipend for university and community college students):this program funded by henry and margy dudley provided 19 qualified afghan women students (all alumni of a4t schools, from very poor families) with a small stipend for their higher education needs and enabled them to have better job opportunities.

health post:the abdullah omar health post in shiek yassin, wardak province provides over 2,118 families in 35-40 villages in the chak district, wardak province with checkups, health care information, medical treatment by doctors and medicine. Services include midwife services for women and their newborns. A small fee is charged for services and medicines, except for the poor who can't pay.

agriculture and vocational training programs:the cooperative poultry project (started in 2011) continued the training of 80 farmers (40 men and 40 women) in logar province to raise healthy hens to produce high quality eggs. Each family constructed chicken coops in 2011. The project provided all materials and chickens. The 80 farmers in this program each received 50 hens in january 2011. The farmers were able to sell the eggs to a co-op to improve their families' income.

a4t's offices are on the first floor of the same building as the guesthouse, which is on the second floor. This includes the offices of the country director ("cd") who oversees all a4t programs and the staff working in the building including: director of operations admin /hr manager, finance manager, guest house manager/logistics manager and a cook, cleaner and guard. The office is used for weekly meetings between the office managers and guesthouse staff, monthly meetings of all the stream managers of the projects, monthly meetings with the advisory committee, for interviewing candidates for staff positions or for one of the projects, for preparing all the forms, paperwork and taxes required by the afghan government of the projects or guesthouse, reviewing project proposals, preparing the annual budget for the organization and a monthly revenue and expense report for all operations for the board, writing a monthly activity report with photos of all projects and office and guesthouse activities, preparing other financial reports and analysis about projects for large donors of our projects, writing grant proposals/applications for funding projects, working with a4t volunteers, storing and preparing supplies for our projects, preparing the tax worksheets with the board treasurer for the irs form 990, conference calls with board members and/or affiliate organizations we work with, meeting with tour groups and volunteers staying at the guesthouse about a4t programs and needs; solving many challanges facing our organization daily, etc. A4t guesthouse is used by: a4t staff who operate our programs, our organization's board members traveling to kabul to oversee our projects, a4t volunteers, by our staff for teacher training, capacity training of staff, by academics on a graduate school program, journalists, and by volunteers in humanitarian projects supported by or parallel to our mission. Part of the income helps to support a4t's education and health projects in afghanistan.