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Support the Library

The best way that you can support the Darakht-e Danesh Library is by helping to grow its collection. Here’s how:

  • If you are an Afghan teacher, please share Pashto or Dari digitalized resources that you use in your own classroom. You can type up lesson plans, tests, exercise sheets, experiments, games, or other resources that you find helpful in your own teaching. Maybe you invented the resource or idea yourself or maybe you learned it from another teacher. In either case, by sharing your resource you can make an impact in many different classrooms at the same time.
  • If you are an Iranian or Tajik educator or teacher trainer, please share your resources with our community of Afghan educators. There are very few educational materials available in print or online in Afghanistan’s languages. One of its most widely spoken languages, Dari, is mutually intelligible with Farsi (Persian). Please digitalize and upload your materials, and help support Afghan teachers.
  • If you are a Pashto speaker, we need your help! It is very difficult to locate educational resources in the Pashto language. We welcome original contributions, translated materials or advice on where we can find more Pashto resources to add to the collection.
  • If you are a bilingual person who can speak English, and Pashto or Dari, and you have strong writing and translation skills, please help translate more Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Afghan teachers. There are hundreds of thousands of English OERs freely available on the internet in collections such as those at OER Commons, Connexions, Curriki, and Knowledge Hub. We greatly value receiving these resources (with a link or copy of the original resource) from volunteer translators. We can’t pay you, but we can assure you that your contribution has a major impact on Afghan classrooms.

To upload resources to the Darakht-e Danesh Library, please register first.

CW4WAfghan supports education, literacy and library development for women and girls in Afghanistan through a variety of projects and by working collaboratively with its Afghan partner organizations. The work of our volunteer-driven organization, which has minimal overhead costs, has led to thousands of girls and boys getting an education through our work training teachers, raising funds for teachers' salaries, funding libraries, adult literacy programs and more. This is only possible from the support we get from the public in Canada and beyond. We welcome donations of any size to this and other projects. Click here to learn more.