Millions of Afghan children still lack access to quality education. We’re working to change that.

Education opens doors to opportunity and hope. Yet thousands of Afghan children—especially girls—remain out of school due to poverty and displacement. BEST is committed to changing this by expanding access to inclusive, community-based education and lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Education empowers communities and transforms futures.

Through schools, accelerated learning programs, and teacher training, BEST helps children and youth gain the skills they need to build a brighter, more self-reliant future.

Our track record in education

Since 2006, BEST has established hundreds of community-based schools and literacy centres and trained more than 3,000 teachers across Afghanistan. Our education portfolio spans formal and non-formal education, Accelerated Learning Programs that help out-of-school children re-enter the formal system, teacher training in modern pedagogy and child-centered learning, School Management Committees that strengthen community ownership, and the provision of textbooks, stationery, and classroom equipment.

Selected education projects:

  • Support Protection and Empowerment of Afghan Children (SPEAC I & II) — War Child Canada, Logar Province, 2017–2022
  • Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – ACCESS Program — UNICEF / War Child Canada, Uruzgan and Sar-e-Pul Provinces, 2019–2020
  • Learning Promotion for Returnees — UNOCHA, Nangarhar Province, 2013–2014
  • Access to Justice – Legal Rights Awareness for teachers, youth and communities — UNDP, Wardak and Nangarhar, 2008–2011
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