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REPORT FROM AFGHANISTAN
Shawn Grauel, a fifteen year old from Manhattan who is a student at Northfield Mount Hermon boarding school in Massachusetts, founded the Off Track School Program. In August 2002 Shawn visited Kabul with his Mother who is working on another program to help the Afghan women through PARSA. Shawn is apparently the first American teen to visit and offer help to the Youth in Kabul since the war began over twenty years ago. The Off Track School program is a joint collaboration between Shawn Grauel and PARSA.
The goal of the program is to provide youth who are three or more grade levels behind in school with an accelerated curriculum so they can be placed in an appropriate age/grade level in public school. The program will target youth that would ordinarily not be attending school because they have to work to support their families.
The program will create a relationship between American students and the Afghan classroom by interactive curriculum; school visits by American teachers and students, and correspondence via inter-net and digital cameras.
Shawn's Off Track School Program will be sponsored by
USAID Operation Day's Work.
He is also producing a 15-minute video (ECD 12/01/2002) for fundraising.
If you and/or your children are interested in showing this video at your
school, contact Shawn or Terri Grauel.
PARSA is the
recommended Afghan charity of aisk.org. PARSA was founded and continues to be run by Mary MacMakin, the mother of 3 Scorpions who has devoted her life to helping the people of Afghanistan.
Please donate to PARSA and be assured that your donations go directly towards helping the needy people of Afghanistan, particularly the widows who are on the streets begging.
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