PROJECTS
On this page is a wish list of 25 projects that individuals or groups can work on.� Later we will add information about who is working on them and how you can get involved.� If you are interested in participating, please contact us.
1) �ADOPTION OF AFGHAN CHILDREN: find and support a program that finds homes for Afghan orphans.
2) �AFGHAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: including food, clothing, art, music, literature�.
3) �AFGHANS IN OUR AREA: support Afghans living near us.
4) AID ORGANIZATIONS: make a list of the US, international and Afghan organizations that are working in Afghanistan, what they are doing and how to contact them. [click here]
5) BIBLIOGRAPHY: find out what is available in different categories: adult and child; fiction and nonfiction; periodicals; videos; websites. [click here]
6) BICYCLE AND WHEELCHAIR REPAIR: this was a useful project in Nicaragua after the war there.
7) BOOK: help market Os Cresson�s book on Afghanistan that will be used to raise funds for AFSC Afghan relief programs; it is due out in June. [click here]
8) COALITION WITH OTHER LOCAL GROUPS INTERESTED IN AFGHANISTAN: these projects as opportunity to develop an awareness of the basic commonality of all people.
9) CRAFTS: support work that an Afghan family can do at home or in workshops.
10) FUNDRAINSING: for one or more specific projects or for an aid organization in general.
11) ISLAM: learn more about this religion; visit local Islamic centers.
12) LANDMINES: adopt a minefield near a school or project we are working on.
13) LITERACY IN AFGHANISTAN: survey what projects are underway; consider ways to support one of them.
14) LOBBYING: for appropriate US legislation.
15) PEN PALS: with Afghan and American students and adults.
16) PERSIAN: study the language (Dari, a Persian dialect, is spoken in much of Afghanistan); classes are given at Penn and home instruction materials are available.
17) PROFESSIONALS: contact between professionals here and in Afghanistan. [see PEN PALS, above]
18) PROSTHETICS: help supply them to handicapped Afghans.
19) SCHOOLS IN AFGHANISTAN: the project would depends on their needs; could be contact with students, teachers and/or parents; translation would have to be done at that end; supplies would probably be bought there but under some circumstances shipping from here is not out of the question.�
20) SCHOOLS IN OUR AREA: speaking to them about Afghanistan; work with students on projects.
21) SCHOOLS� PEACE EDUCATION CURRICULA: survey what is being done there and here; get samples of curricula; seek ways to make this available in Afghan schools.
22) SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL RELATIONSHIPS: help pair up schools; this would require a procedure for gradually building the relationship and criteria for selecting schools that begin the process.
23) SPEAKERS: giving talks in local schools and churches (FAC can provide the materials necessary); inviting speakers to come and inform us about Afghanistan.
24) STUDY GUIDE: everything one would need to put together a curriculum unit on Afghanistan. [click here]
25) WEBSITE: using the FAC website to coordinate work on these projects.
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