Schools
School construction- we built 23 schools in Kunduz and Takhar
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In 1994, we built a school in Katachel (the rainbowschool) to prepare the children for their future. Both boys and girls come to our school, and we had to spread out because we didn't have enough capacity for all the registrations.
In 2000, we built a second school with 8 class rooms and a big teacher room. In spring 2003, we have 600 boys and 200 girls going to our schools. The lessons are given in the morning and the afternoon, by 22 teachers (16 male, 6 female). In total, we have 11 class rooms, one polyvalent room, 3 teacher rooms and 6 toilets. The furniture was made by the local carpenter.
The pupils can now read and write in their mother language, and they have a basic knowledge of English. Mathematics are teached in both Persian and European numbers.
As equipment, lots of schoolbags filled with pens were sended to the rainbowschool, to pleasure the kids.
Since spring 2002, our organisation also supports the Char Darrah region, at the west of Kunduz. Over there, a school with 12 rooms for 1300 boys and 300 girls was constructed.
Our organisation also supports the construction of a smaller school for 160 girls, together with Afghan German Online.
We built schools in Katachel(2), Basuz(2),Chugha, Eshantup, Buin, Moussassai, Akakhel, Chardarra(2), Charsaraka, Omar Khel, Aliabad, Qalaisal, Shiensai, Taluqan, Alaf Birdi, Aynul Majer for 15 000 girls and boys. In the moment we are building the 20th school with the japan gouverment in Bolakawol, the opening was June the 18. with official persons from Japan.
In Kooperation with the dutch gouverment TMF we are building the school Za Khel and with the german BMZ we are building the school Bangi Bargh.
2007 we built the highschool in Katachel with WECF
2008 we are building our 24th school, the school Tarnau with WECF
School Akakhel, built by Katachel e.V. with WECF, TMF and Bingo-Lotto
On August 4. 2005, the school built by WECF’s project partner Katachel e.V. was opened in the village Akakhel in the province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan by Katachel e.V. director Sybille Schnehage. Kunduz Province’s Governor Ingenieur Omar, the provincial minister for Education Faruk, the German Oberst Hans Otto Iben, the Dutch Major v.d.Heiden, and many other officials from Kunduz attended the opening ceremony.
This is the first school that has been built in the village, which has not only severely suffered from more than 20 years of war and civil strife, but has also been neglected so far by international aid programmes because it is located on the remote desert plateau of the Dasht-i Eshantup and has been considered a stronghold of the Taliban. The activities for building the school have fundamentally changed Akakhel’s isolated situation. Katachel’s activists received an open welcome by the local population. Young men from the village Akakhel, who have constantly taken part in building the school and are now part of its first classes have even taken up the habit of regularly visiting Katachel e.V. headquarters in Katachel village. The process of building a school in a joint effort has thus already contributed considerably to moving people in the region towards peace and co-operation. Children from Akakhel (Pashtuns) and Shun Shur Darr (Hazaras) will learn side by side at the new school.
The building was constructed in only 4 months on a foundation of limestone with brick walls reinforced by ferro-concrete girders. The ceilings are made of wood; the building is covered by a tin roof. The construction of the tin roof has been possible thanks to additional funding provided by the Bingo-Lotto foundation. It enhances the durability of the building.
In its 8 classrooms, 250 boys and 350 girls are taught by 8 teachers in three shifts. The teachers are employed and paid by the provincial government, which has also taken over the responsibility for maintaining the building. The number of boys is smaller than it could be for the time being, since the boys have to go down to the river valley 12 kilometres away from the village to fetch water every day. Establishing a water supply for the village poses many problems. WECF and its project partners are currently looking for effective solutions.
The school is equipped with eco-san toilets. Using human faeces and urine as a fertilizer is already being practiced in the region. Eco-san offers the possibility to improve the effectiveness of the methods currently used.
Furthermore, Katachel e.V. has built one small bridge in the village of Char Tut and 12 wells in the villages Kattaarab and Kattauzbek. The bridge improves the accessibility of Char Tut considerably, since the main road can now be reached from the village by cars and in any weather conditions, which previously had been very difficult or even impossible. The wells are mostly built in household yards to ensure easy access for women, for whom it would be sometimes a problem to be exposed in public while fetching water. Each well provides water for approximately 35 people. These wells are an essential improvement to the water supply situation for more than 400 people and will considerably increase their quality of life and state of health.
