the people. CAI’ s ongoing relationships with the schools and communities, its willingness to continue to expand schools and consider other critical needs along the way is what makes us different from other nongovernmental organizations( NGOs).”
To ensure the success and sustainability of this work, we need your help.
In the following pages you will find more information about the specific projects we hope to fund with money raised in this campaign. This is work that has to happen.
“ So many nongovernmental organizations are retreating from these areas along with the American and international troops’ focus,” Thaden said.“ The result is other internationally funded projects are already crumbling from lack of care. We’ re determined not to let this happen to the schools and communities CAI supports. We have an unwavering long-term commitment to keep the schools and programs open, providing the best-quality education possible, even under extreme conditions.”
If you’ ve already given, we’ re grateful. Please consider a gift specifically to this fund. Help us build a more peaceful, sustainable, and enlightened future. Help us build a bridge to tomorrow. n
Stories by Karin Ronnow, CAI communications director Photos by Erik Petersen, Ellen Jaskol, and CAI overseas team
CAI Spring Campaign Projects:
� Baltistan, Pakistan: Expansions to two schools— including Jahan’ s alma mater in Korphe and our second school, in Hushe village— where enrollment exceeds the schools’ capacities. Funds needed: KORPHE: $ 35,000 + HUSHE: $ 15,000
� Saw, Afghanistan: Rebuild bombed-out portion of Saw Girls’ School in volatile Kunar Province. Funds needed: $ 35,000
� Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan: Badly needed repairs for 26 schools in one of the most remote corners of the world. Funds needed: $ 100,000
� Rukut, Pakistan: Construction of a new primary school in the Yarkhun Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a region beset by poverty and government neglect and increasingly threatened by extremist activity. Funds needed: $ 25,000
� Barg-e-Matal, Afghanistan: CAI is in the first year of a two-year project to raise funds for a new girls’ school in volatile Nuristan province on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Funds needed: $ 150,000
Total funds needed: $ 360,000
See page 15 to find out how you can help
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