Teacher training is an essential component of our mission to support education for all in Afghanistan.

Ayni funds and manages Afghan teacher training centers, which have taught several hundred rural teachers the fundamentals of teaching, as well as the various disciplines in the classroom. Because most Afghan teachers, particularly females, in rural areas have limited training, our focus has been on these individuals and those teachers at rural girls’ schools. Of the 412 districts in Afghanistan, 245 currently do not have a single woman qualified to teach. And, of the 175,000 teachers, only 10% of the qualified teachers are in the rural areas. Our more remote Afghan training center was a pilot project (bringing trainers to the center instead of the teachers coming to the center), located at a large, rural school we helped build years ago. Because of its success, the center was later used as a model by the Afghan Ministry of Education.