Our Projects for Afghanistan

Paghman Trutz High School
Schools at Jalalabad
Village School of Zawa
Village School of Chewa
Start of Building Additional Schools
"Iron Cow" (Milk Supply for Children)
Mother-and-Child Hospital
Unicef
Basic Health Units
Orphanage "Children`s House Afghanistan"

The Village School of Zawa

On December 1, 2002, we opened a school for 800 pupils in the village Zawa, about 40 km south of Jalalabad and in the immediate vicinity of Tora Bora. The Afghan Minister of Education and the Governor of the province were present. A school built of stone was unheard of in this poor high altitude area (1,800 m above sea level). The building was a challenge for everyone and in many ways. Workers had to leave their families for 6 months. Often transportation of material on unsteady, bumpy paths was adventurous. There were a lot of problems in completing the school because the purchase of wood for the school benches proved difficult. The forests were cut down during the years of war, and the bombings of the recent past also had an adverse effect. Prices for wood were rising dramatically.


An Afghan television team arrived from Kabul to collect footage for a 1-hour-shoot about that school, which was broadcast several times.

In that particular district, the war of the last 20 years had enormous consequences. Therefore, we want to pay special attention to this area and we wanted to help these people by establishing the school.