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Afghan Schools Project Update
School Profiles
The Girls School 1, located in Taloqan
City
The Girls School 1 is located in the
heart of the provincial capital, Taloqan. Taloqan is
approximately 1 1/2 hours drive from Kunduz City, accessible
by UN flights. The drive from Taloqan to Kabul takes
approximately nine hours, weather permitting. Taloqan
City, Taloqan District, Takhar Province.
- Principal: Abdul Satar Qadri
- Number of students: 3991 students
including 640 in high school; approximately 200 students
are IDP's or returnees.
- Grade level of stuents: grades
1-12 ages 7-20
- Ethnicity of students: 70%
Tajik, 20% Uzbek, 10% Pashtun
- Number of teachers: Girls School
1 employs 91 teachers. Due to the drastic increase
in the student body the school administration recruited
16 teachers who are currently completing their high
school degrees at the same institution.
- History: The Girls School 1
in Taloqan was built in 1992 by the Swedish Committee
for Afghanistan with donations of roofing materials
from the City of Taloqan. Destroyed in 1999 by the
Taliban, and rebuilt by Relief International, the
school officially reopened in January 2002.
Subjects taught:
- Grades 1 - 4: Dari, mathematics
and drawing
- Grades 5 - 6: Dari, Pashtu,
mathematics, science, history, geography and drawing
- Grades 7 - 8: Dari, Pashtu,
English, Arabic, mathematics, physics, chemistry,
biology, economics, history, geography and drawing
Schedule:
- The school is organzed into
three shifts: shift 1 (7 am - 10am), shift 2 (10 am
- 1 pm) and shift 3 (1 pm - 5 pm)
Sanitation facilities:
Special needs:
- School officials expressed
a need for classroom furniture, educational materials,
blackboards and a science laboratory.
Current situation:
- The student population has
drastically increased since 1999 because of population
movements (both IDP's and returnees) and the return
of women to academia in the post-Taliban era.
Contact person: Amanullah
Dashti - Director of Education - Taloqan, Takhar Province
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