Ladies in Afghanistan have began receiving their training at colleges run by Turkey’s Maarif Basis, in line with the group’s Chair.
Talking to Anadolu Company, President of the Basis, Birol Akgun, mentioned that there are not any issues within the main college training of women in Afghanistan, including that vital progress was made in secondary and excessive colleges and that in most Maarif colleges, college students have returned to class.
“Restrictions proceed within the secondary and highschool sections of our women’ colleges within the capital, Kabul, and Kandahar. We imagine this might be overcome with time. Dialogue of the difficulty continues via our embassy,” he mentioned.
On current political developments within the nation, Akgun mentioned that they took over the colleges in Afghanistan with an interstate settlement signed between Turkey and Afghanistan some three years in the past, and proceed to function colleges by boosting their capability and high quality.
He careworn that, since then, the variety of college students has elevated and the Basis has opened new colleges in an effort to meet calls for in varied cities.
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“The Turkish Maarif Basis has round 6,500 college students and colleges in 19 campuses at totally different ranges … in varied cities, corresponding to Kabul, Herat, Jalalabad, Mazar-i Sharif, Kandahar, Maidan Wardak, Aqcha and Sheberghan. A few of these colleges are separate colleges for women,” he mentioned.
Acknowledging some uneasiness because of current political developments within the nation, after the Taliban swiftly took energy this August, Akgun mentioned with the help of Turkey’s Embassy in Kabul and associated establishments, the colleges continued working “with none nice loss.”
“Because of negotiations, the brand new Afghan administration began to point out a extra versatile strategy to persevering with training for feminine college students,” he mentioned, referring to the interim Taliban administration.
Significance of training women
Akgun careworn that 40 % of the 6,500 college students enrolled in Maarif colleges are women.
“Households place significance on the training of women. We’ve got 14 colleges in Afghanistan that now we have opened completely for feminine college students. Solely a few of our women’ colleges are ready for permission from training officers,” he added.
He mentioned feminine college students in 4 colleges haven’t began training but, as restrictions on secondary and highschool sections of Maarif women’ colleges within the capital and Kandahar proceed.
Akgun mentioned that, beside these circumstances, the entire different Maarif colleges stay open.
‘Supply of hope’
The standard of the training supplied by Maarif colleges, in addition to the general public belief within the colleges, are an important elements maintaining the work going, he mentioned.
“The Turkish Maarif Basis retains persevering with the standard training efforts now we have made all around the world for all sectors of the Afghan individuals in Afghanistan,” he defined.
“That is our widespread cultural and humanitarian responsibility. The continuation of academic actions in Afghanistan, which the entire world has deserted, is a supply of hope for everybody and is essential on this respect.”
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Akgun asserted that training is among the many “precedence points” within the nation within the new period and that efforts are being made on this context to resolve any issues that come up.
“Colleges have been opened all through the nation, however because of embargoes, financial difficulties disrupted training in some areas. We all know that the UN and Turkey preserve elevating the difficulty in an effort to overcome these issues. In universities, training hasn’t began but,” he mentioned.
Maarif has additionally established dozens of faculties and training centres overseas.
