Afghan Institute of Learning

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Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) is a non-governmental organization of Afghan women, which was co-founded by Sakena Yacoobi in 1995 and aims to promote and support the education and medical care of Afghan women and girls in rural and poor regions. To date, the organization has trained more than 17,000 teachers and as a result almost 400,000 Afghan women and children have received an education.

AIL is the Zonta International project and is supported by Ashoka . AIL was awarded the Gruber Prize for Women's Rights in 2004. In 2015, Yacoobi received the WISE Prize for Education for her work with the AIL .

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  1. ^ Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL). American Jewish World Service, 2008, archived from the original on January 6, 2009 ; accessed on April 7, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Afghan Institute of Learning at Abbott Fund ( Memento June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn: Half of Heaven . CH Beck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60638-0 , pp. 206 f . ( Limited preview in the Google Book Search - English: Half the sky . Translated by Karl Heinz Siber).
  4. ^ Afghan Institute of Learning at newglobalcitizens.org ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ 2004 Gruber Women's Rights Prize at gruberprizes.org; Retrieved June 18, 2011
  6. ↑ 2015 WISE Prize for Education - Dr. Sakena Yacoobi. In: wise-qatar.org. August 1, 2011, accessed November 5, 2015 .