Content Topic

Education

English
Pashto
Dari

Recommended resources

Education

Providing quality education for all

Explore our work

More resources

Situation report

29 December 2024

UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 1-30 November 2024

Highlights• Since 15 September 2023, over 758,000 Afghan returnees from Pakistan have been registered. UNICEF continues to support the response at the Torkham and Spin Boldak border points with health, polio, WASH, nutrition, child protection and social behaviour change interventions.• In November, over 460,000 ch...

Situation report

30 November 2024

UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 1-31 October 2024

Highlights• Needs remain alarmingly high, with over 50 per cent of the population—23.7 million people, including 12.3 million children—requiring humanitarian assistance in 2024.• In October, over 832,000 children were screened for wasting, of whom 44,800 (58.5 per cent girls) were admitted for outpatient treatment...

27 November 2024

First-time students, lifelong lessons

Adolescence can be awkward. It is a time of growth and change — a period of navigating new responsibilities and emotions, exploring identity, and adjusting to the world. But for this group of teenage girls, the room buzzes with confidence and excitement. Although studying in grade 4 at an age when they should be i...

20 November 2024

Additional Financing for the Education Emergency Response for Afghanistan (EERA) funded by the World Bank

The World Bank is funding the Additional Financing for the Education Emergency Response for Afghanistan (EERA) project, which is implemented by UNICEF along with its NGO implementing partners (IPs) and Contractors. The Project Development Objective (PDO) aims to enhance access to learning opportunities for girls a...

07 October 2024

One year after the earthquakes in western Afghanistan, UNICEF calls for greater support to children’s basic needs and community resilience

HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, 7 October 2024 – One year after the powerful earthquakes in western Afghanistan, communities are showing signs of recovery. Families are slowly getting back on their feet, rebuilding their homes and lives after the disaster. But progress is fragile. Winter approaches and community resilience is...

29 September 2024

A tent full of dreams

“When lessons begin, I drop whatever I am busy with and come to class.” After a two-hour, early morning drive down a dusty road, Maryam arrives at her classroom in a tent. With her 34 other classmates, Maryam smooths her uniform and sits in one of seven neat rows, surrounded by tent walls adorned with colorful edu...

EU provides additional €13 million for malnutrition treatment and community-based education in Afghanistan

Pashto version: Pashto Here Dari version: Dari Here KABUL, 25 August 2024 – Over 78,000 children in Afghanistan will benefit from additional funding for nutrition and Education in Emergencies from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). With this €13 million contribution, UNIC...

More than just cash

No one in Amina’s family has ever been to school, but this has not stopped the 16-year-old from dreaming of going to school one day and learning to write her name. For years, for reasons she does not always understand, she has not been able to attend school in Afghanistan, while elsewhere in the world, children he...

A safe school for Nadia

Just two years ago, 10-year-old Nadia’s school in Badghis province, western Afghanistan had no water. With 1,500 children enrolled at the school, the strain on the limited sanitation facilities, with no water, was enough to keep children away and missing critical learning hours. Nadia and her friends had a diffic...

18 February 2024

Learning to read, daring to dream

DAIKUNDI, AFGHANISTAN – “I am happy that I can help my father to read phone numbers.” 9-year-old Khadija lives in Afghanistan’s remote central highlands with her parents and three siblings. Until recently, she was one of millions of children not in school, as around half of children in Afghanistan do not attend pr...

24 January 2024

Safer schools, secure futures

Sadaf, Sadaf is one of 4,000 girls enrolled in her girls’ school in western Afghanistan. She loves to learn, but struggled to stay in school when her time of the month approached. Her school did not have clean toilets, running water, or even soap where she could wash her hands. “I am 11 years old now. I know there...

21 December 2023

From streets to classrooms

At 10 years old, Zainab had never been to school and could not read or write her own name. She watched as girls and boys her age walked past her shoeshine box on their way to and from school. Zainab worked on the streets in Balkh, northern Afghanistan, for two years. She polished shoes near the town mosque from ar...