HOPE Community Centre (a programme of HOPE worldwide Afghanistan estb, 2001) is disseminating vocational skills to the needy Afghan youth. Established in July 2012, until Dec 2015, the centre has produced 352 graduates (178 in Computers and 174 in Communication English) and many have found jobs.

1. HOPE Community Centre
( a programme of HOPE worldwide Afghanistan)
Equipping today’s underprivileged youth with Vocational Skills
FACT SHEET
HOPE Community
Centre
A community based programme of HOPE worldwide Afghanistan
disseminating vocational skills to the needy Afghan youth.
Established in July 2012, until Dec 2015, the centre has produced
352 graduates (178 in Computers and 174 in Communication English)
and many have found jobs.
SKILLS OFFERED Communication English & Computer Skill Training for Youth.
PURPOSE
To provide afghan youth with vocational skills, enabling them with
better employment prospects, thus break the cycle of poverty.
GOAL
To train 150 students in 2016 (60 in Comm. English and 90 in
Computers Skills)
BUDGET
Total Annual budget US$33,759
Funding required for the current year US$ 23,000
TARGET POPULATION
Dehdana Darul Aman, district 7th
, Kabul, Afghanistan
The district has a total household population of 40,000 within the
radius of 4 Km out of which Afghan youth will be approx. 8800.
RATIONALE:
Afghanistan - devastated by three decades of war, unrest and poverty. There is a constant
threat to life and well-being because of political and economic instability. The future of Afghan
youth looms largely due to lack of equal educational opportunities and widespread poverty, Afghan
youth’s right to employability continues to be just on paper.
There are about 823,000* Afghan youth unemployed and about 400,000 are added each year
to those numbers, who are waiting to be employed. But many of them are not job-ready as they
lack skills required by the industry.
The need of the hour is to make Afghan youth employable, and equip them with needed
vocational skills which will make them employable.
*Study on the State of Employment in Afghanistan –May 2012 ILO
A chance to bring hope and change the lives of youth in a war torn country
FUTURE PLANS
include sewing and tailoring skills to the vocational skill with funding
availability of US$ 5500/-
To impact
150 Afghan
students in
2016
Since July
2012, 352
Students
have
graduated
from the
training
centre

2. Testimonial from the HOPE community Centre:
“Many painful stories could have a happy ending”
Zai Ahmad and his ten siblings used to help their father in his
farm in their home province of Logar. Their father understood the need
for education so ensured his children went to school. But due to the
continuous conflict and insecurity in the area they lived, they made the
tough decision to move to the (relative) safety of Kabul. It was painful
for them to leave their home, their friends and their livelihood and
move to strange and daunting place. But there was one blessing. The
older children could enter higher education, something not available in
Logar, and Zai, earned himself a place at Kabul University to study for
a Bachelor of Business Administration.
Determined to succeed in order to help support his family, Zai found and joined the HOPE
community center to learn English language and computer skills. There are commercial
organisations offering this in Kabul but there is no way Zai could have afforded to attend one.
With the skills Zai learnt at the HOPE community center, Zai was recently accepted as a
teacher in a local school. The US$92 / GB£60 he earns each month enables him to start
supporting his family while he continues his studies.
Zai continually expresses his gratitude for the HOPE community center for providing him
with the necessary skills to enable him to help his family while helping the children of Kabul,
and to do so while studying for a career that he hopes will give him the tools to help many
others. Reflecting on his life to date and his prospects for the future Zai stated,
“every successful person has a painful story but every painful story can have a
successful ending”.
Implemented by HOPE worldwide Afghanistan,
founded in April 2001 and is a registered NGO with the
Ministry of Economy (registration #47). Over the past
15 years, HOPE worldwide Afghanistan has completed
numerous works in the areas of healthcare, education,
orphan care, construction, and community based
irrigation programs.
Contact Information
Afghanistan:
HOPE worldwide Afghanistan,
HOPE community Centre, Fatihakhwani Street, Dehdana Darul Aman, 7th
district, Kabul,
Afghanistan 1004. (mahaveer.jain@hopeww.org ; Mobile: +91-88609-06950)
US:
HOPE worldwide Ltd.1285 Drummers Lane, Suite 105, Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087-1572.
Hope.worldwide@hopeww.org
UK:
HOPE worldwide UK, 360 City Road, London EC1V 2PY, Tel: 07951 379 973
wil.horwood@hopeworldwide.org.uk
Australia:
HOPE worldwide (Australia) Ltd, No: 19 Chandler Rd, Glen Waverley, VIC 3150.
+61 (434) 168 945 , Mark_Timlin@hopeww.org
Like Zai, we aim to impact the lives of 90 youth every year!