LACK OF BUILDINGS AND CLASSROOMS IS A CHALLENGE FOR BAMEYAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

 Afghanistan is making progress in improving access to education in the past two decades but still approximately 3.7 million children remain out of school, especially in Bameyan, thousands of children remain out of schools due to poverty. Most of the village children are forced to work to take part of the families income. More than 90% of the children in the rural areas of Bameyan have to work either full time or part time to support their families. 

Those who have the chance to go to school and have the opportunity to study but they face many educational challenges and difficulties. Weak administrative, corruption are the main reasons that the Bameyan education system faces multiple challenges such as lack of buildings for schools, lack of school equipment, lack of professional administrative employees and teachers, lack of new written books. Clean drinking water is another challenge for the Bameyan Education System. 

The below pictures belong to a mixed gender school which is located in Dara Folladi of Bameyan. Morning time belongs to the boys and the afternoon belongs to the girls. This school has at least 300 hundred students, half of them have to study outdoors due to lack of buildings and classrooms. During the early spring and late fall, they have to endure the seasonal cold and the summer sun. 

According to the report, of total 339 schools in Bamyan, 63 of them have no buildings and enouph classrooms while some schools’ buildings are in terrible condition.

Reports from the Bamyan Education Department show that currently 134,480 students in the province are enrolled in 339 schools. According to these statistics, the Bamiyan Education Department has 3476 teachers, and there is a shortage of 1600 teachers according to the number of schools and students.

demonstrating the cascading implications of lack of education for girls in the country. Education brings empowerment and enlightenment for all and it is possible in this country to afford to lose another generation to war, conflict and displacement. Education is largely delivered along gender lines in Afghanistan, with very few mixed-gender schools, lack of girls especial schools and female teachers provides a significant barrier to education for the 2.2 million girls that are still left behind. 

National governments and international communities supporting education in conflict-affected contexts generally view it as a vehicle for peace and sustainable prosperity. Education is indeed a means of empowering learners.  It creates new visions and employment opportunities to help students secure a stable livelihood.

Today, Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world for those aged 15 and over, with a male literacy rate of 62% and a female literacy rate of 18% (the median for low income countries is 70% for males and 57% for females).

 Conflict, corruption, and a failing education system have caused approximately 3.7 million children (between the ages of 7 and 17) to be left out of school and susceptible to forced labor, recruitment, and exploitation. Nearly half of school-aged children between 6 and 14 years old are also involved in child labor. Those living in rural areas are significantly less likely to access education if they are involved in labor activities, and working children “whose mothers have no education (49%) are less likely to attend school compared with their counterparts whose mothers have attained secondary education or higher (88%),”