Partners

The Afghan Women's Network (AWN)

The Afghan Women's Network (AWN) is a non-partisan network of Afghan women's organizations that was founded by Afghan women in 1996.

AWN seeks to enhance the ability of Afghan women to fully participate in their communities. AWN works to accomplish this goal by increasing the effectiveness of its member organizations and by fostering partnership and collaboration between its members. AWN also undertakes some advocacy and lobbying efforts on behalf of Afghan women.

At present, AWN is composed of 72 Afghan women's organizations and approximately 3,000 individuals.

Some examples of AWN's activities include workshops on gender-based violence and women's legal rights, gender and media training, gender training for government employees, women's leadership training, and conflict resolution training.

For more information on AWN, please see its Web site: www.afghanwomensnetwork.org

Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC)

Since December of 2008, the AIWR has been working with the ACCC to provide online ESL conversation classes to female students at the center. The ACCC is a professional educational institution in Kandahar. The ACCC provides students with opportunities to receive education in Business Management, Information Technology, English and Communications, while providing members of the community with access to the Internet and online classes from Canadian and international institutions.

ACCC programs provide students with the skills needed to obtain employment to support themselves and their families, improve their communities and participate in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

For more information about the Afghan-Canadian Community Center, please visit:
http://www.theafghanschool.org/