At Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, we believe that the greatest investment that can be made in Afghanistan’s future is in its teachers. To invest in teachers is to invest in their professional development and to ensure that they have access to knowledge and information that will stimulate their own learning. This, in turn, will contribute to the overwhelmingly important task of providing
a high quality education to the youth of Afghanistan. A major impediment to quality education is the lack of local language educational resources for both teachers and students. Many organizations and individuals have undertook to create specific resources to address this gap for their own programs. The Darakht-e Danesh Library seeks to bring together as many of these resources as possible, engaging bilingual Afghans to help translate good resources to add to the collection, and encouraging teachers to create and contribute their own educational materials to the Library. We seek to support Afghan teachers to become part of the Open Educational Resource movement, and to harness the potential of OERs for the benefit of Afghan classrooms. At www.darakhtdanesh.org you can register to use the Library, then browse the Library’s collections in Dari, Pashto or English, add your own open source resource to the collection, help us find more resources to build the Library’s collection, find out how to support education in Afghanistan, and learn more about education in Afghanistan. Visit the tool today! www.darakhtdanesh.org
