Mollie Tant
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Call for Scholarship Applications 2023
د ښځو ان لاین پوهنتون د راحله ټرسټ یا د راحله امانت صندق سره یو تړون امضا یا لاسلیک کړی د افغانانو ښځو د لوړی ذدکړو د لپاره هر پر شرایطو برابر یامستحق وړ انجلی کولای شی چی درخواست ورته وکړی اما باید پر لاندی شرایط یامعیارونوو برابروی ترڅو دبورس خاونده شی.
کاندیدان باید تر مخه ددی چی درخواست وکړی خپل ځان دواجده شرایطو څخه اګاه کړی او کامل متن په غور سره ولولی
دراحله امانت صندق:.
راحله ټرسټ او یا ( دراحله امانت صندق) یو بریتانیایينهادی خیریه ده چی هغه یو افغانی خانمه دهاو ۲۰۱۵ م کال د راحله صدیقی په واسطه می تاسیس شو
چی تر څو ځوانی افغانی انجونی حمایه کړی د لوړو ذده کړو دپاره په خاصه توګه هغه انجونی جنسي تبعیض په شمول تهدید سوی یی.
ټرسټ په هدف کی لری ترڅو استشنایی اناث شاګردان څوک چی د خوشنت یا تاوتریخواليسره مخامخ سوی او کم خوشنت چی ددوی د قابلیت مانع ګرځی تر څو مخکی تعلیم ته ادامه ورکړی، او همدا رنګه هغه څوک کوم چی د اجتماعی نظره محدودیتونه ولری او یا هم د نورو لاملونه لکه فقراو غربت له وجی د تعلیم څخه بی برخه سوی یی.
د راحله ټرسټ د همدا پروګرام چاری پرمخ بیایی تر څو وړکسانو ته بوستپوهنتون په هما هنګی او کمک چی —– ولایت ، افغانستان، د دکورس فیس، یو څه اندازه دمصرف پیسی او د ګروپ شاکردانو لپاره لیپتاب د چمتو کړي.
دا پام کی ده چی دغه نوښت به نورو ولایتو ته هم وغزول سی تر څو نور ولایتونه هم د همدی نوښت څخه برخمن سی په اینده وختوکی.
په شرایط راحله ټرسټ دواجده شراط انجونی لپاره.
په شرایطد وړو انجونو لپاره د راحله ټرسټ معیارونه.
هغه شخص کوم چی دغه بورس ته درخواست کوی باید پر لاندی شرایطو برابروی؛
· ښځینه او باید په افغانستان کی ژوند کوی، او د ۱۶-۳۰ کالو پوری یی عمر وی
· باید په عالی درجه کامیابه سوی یی او فییصدی یی (٪۱۰۰-۷۰) پوری وی.
· باید درمخه لا په لوړو ذده کړو کی راجستر وی، مګر د مشکلاتو له وجی د پوهنتون څخه محرومی سوی یی.
· د یو داسی کورونی څخه وی کوم چی د خوشنت او یا/تاوتریخوالي د موجودیت یو ثبوت ولری او یا هم د ښکنځلو او تحقیر (او دا هم باید په دریم ګروپ کی یا په دریم شخص یا مربوطه ارګان چی هغه CSO او یا هم د ښځو NGO وی په هغو باید تاید او یاتصدیق سوی یی.
· اقتصادی محرومی وی، مالی منابع دکمښت سره مخامخ وی تر څو خپل تعلیم ته ادامه ورکړی.
· د تعلیم کار کول ته علاقه ولری او د استنایی تعلیمی ، کامیاب حس او اراده او وعده ولری.
· د نورو ښځو سره همکاری ولری، او یو غوښتنه او اراده ولری تر څو تبعیض سره مبارزه وکړی
او هر وخت امده وی چی نوری ښځی حمایه کړی.
· د همکارانو موسسېیا د نادولتی مؤسسې په څیر د نورو موسسو لخوا سپارښتنه شوې
نوټ: مهربانی له مخی انلاینfاویا دwww.rahelatrust.org, http://gawharshad.edu.af… www.facebook.com/Woman.Online.University درخواست وکړی پس٬ له خانه پوری نه دا farzanamohammadi1000@gmail.com ایمیل ته او کاپی پهinfo@rahelatrust.org ارسال وکره اوبیا خپله تکمیله درخواستی فورمه د راحله امانت صندق اسکالرشپ کواردیناتور آدرس کی په چاپ شوی ډول درولیگه. او یا کوم چی انفرادی او یا د مدنی ټولنی د ارګانو له خوا او یا هم د تعلیمی انستیوت له خوا معرفی سوی وی واستوی
د تکمیل سوی او یا هم ختم تاریخ(پنحم دسمبر ۲۰۲۳) نه وروسته به درخواستی طی مراحل نشی.
آدرس:کابل مرکز ٬ افغانستان
Women’s Online University WOU signed an agreement with Rahela Trust for Afghan women’s Higher Education (Rahela Trust). Any eligible girl can apply based on bellow criteria to get the scholarship.
Candidates should read carefully eligibility criteria before applying for the scholarship.
The Rahela Trust is a UK based charity, founded by Rahela Sidiqi an Afghan woman right activist, in 2015. Rahela Trust was registered on 26th February 2016 at Charity Commission England and Wales to support young Afghan women in higher education, and in particular those whose aspiration is threatened by gender discrimination including violence.
The Trust aims to support exceptional female students who face violence that threatens their ability to continue with education, and who are socially limited and excluded for various reasons, including poverty. Individuals who are chosen to under-take this programme are provided with a small stipend, mobile, and a laptop, in collaboration with WOU university in, Afghanistan. It is intended that this initiative can be widened to embrace other provinces educational institutions at a later date.
Criteria of Rahela Trust for eligible girls.
The person who applies for this scholarship must have these criteria;
· Female and living in Afghanistan, between the ages of 16 and 30 years old
· Has A grades (70-100% score) degree from school
· Has already attended higher education, is registered, but had to drop out from the university.
· Comes from a family with evidence of violence and/or abuse (to be independently verified by third party such as a CSO or women’s NGO)
· Is financially deprived, lacking financial resources to continue education
· Has a passion for education, and exceptional academic ambition and promise
· Has solidarity with other women, a desire to combat discrimination, and is prepared to support other female students
· Is recommended by a Partner Institution or by another Institution such as an NGO
Note: Please apply online or send your cv via email through any NGO university or as hard copy introduced by Civil society organisations or academic institution
· You can get the application on line.http://gawharshad.edu.af… or from www.rahelatrust.org, www.facebook.com/Woman.Online.University or the hard copy from admin office of the Gawharshaduniversity from bellow address. Provides a complete application in below address to WOU coordinator or Farzana Mohammadi at by 4pm Afghanistan time 5th December 2023 & copy to: info@rahelatrust.org
· In completed and after closing date application will not be processed.
Address: Core University Address: Kartese Darullaman Road Kabul, Afghanistan
Tel:0093797911807, 0093749538557
A Scholar Meets Her Mentor
The Woman & Girls Match Fund 2023
- Between Wednesday 11th October to Wednesday 18th October, Rahela Trust aims to raise £5,000.
- This £5,000 will be match funded by The Big Give.
- That means one donation brings TWICE the impact.
- Funds will be matched up to our £5,000 target. Any funds raised over the £5,000 target will still go towards Afghan women’s education through scholarships and mentoring, but will not be matched by The Big Give.
- To help make this happen, donations MUST be made through The Big Give Campaign page – the link to which will be shared with you via our website, social media and newsletters on launch day (Wednesday 11th October).
- We have one week to make this happen!
- £10,000 would enable us to provide MORE SCHOLARSHIPS, supporting FIVE more scholars and reaching 50 more women and children through community initiatives.
- Women have been banned from education. This is not right. Their fight is a global fight – for equality, for dignity.
- THANKFULLY, due to our size and connections in-country, our scholars are still able to study, receive mentoring and retain hope.
- We’ve been providing talented Afghan women with Afghan university scholarships since 2016. Supporting us allows you to directly provide young Afghan women with an education, helping to create future local leaders for a more progressive and equitable future in Afghanistan.
- This campaign doesn’t just help individual scholars. Between 2022 – 2023, our scholars reached 370 women and children through their community initiatives.
2 Years Since the Taliban Takeover
Today marks two years since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Our work providing university scholarships and mentoring to women in Afghanistan continues. Afghan women are not deterred from fighting for their rights and they do this in so many ways.
Today, alongside our partner The Circle NGO we shine a light on one of our scholars who continues to support her community by offering embroidery workshops to improve economic and mental wellbeing.
Anon RT Scholar: “There are so many ways I can help others in my daily life, and I thought, for a good cause, you don’t have to spend a lot of time and money. Small changes can have a big impact
At the time, I was thinking about what girls and mothers would do if schools were closed continuously, to combat the mental and economic problems and cultural problems that make girls marry underage. I settled on hand-embroidery lessons with very limited resources and taught girls hand-embroidery.”
Where there is education, there is hope and action.
Show your solidarity with Afghan women and girls and support the call for a Global Summit for Women and Girls by signing the global petition – here – and share to your network. You can repost on socials or use the campaign resources below.
You can also donate using the Support Us tab at the top of this page.
Campaign Resources
Afghan Supper Club Cancelled ~ August 2023
- Afghan Supper Club will take place on Monday 21st August
- between 6 PM and 10 PM
- at temper Shoredtich, (78 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL)
- See the link here to buy your tickets (priced at £65.71)
International Women’s Day 2023
On the 8th March 2023, co-working and cultural space Second Home came together with the Afghan diaspora-led magazine, Ariana hosted an event in London in celebration of International Women’s Day and to raise money for Rahela Trust. We saw an amazing group of people come together to support the people of Afghanistan, learn more about the current situation for women in Afghanistan, and celebrate Afghan culture.
The event opened with a speech from the host for the evening, Founder of Ariana Magazine, Ariana Abawe and a few words from Second Home’s Cultural Curator, Magdalena Moursy. The first presentation was from Afghan poet, Hadisa Hussain Afzaly who read her inspiring work in Farsi and then English. Second, we heard from our Founder and Director Rahela Sidiqi, who gave an update on the current situation in Afghanistan and the women we work with. Audiences were then lucky to witness a panel of incredible speakers, including a member of Afghanistan’s first women’s football team, Sabriah Nawrozi Mohseni who dreams of becoming a member of Manchester City’s Women’s Football team, Former Afghan Judge Marzia Babakarkhail and Blind Afghan disability rights activist and co-founder of Rahyab Organisation, Benafsha Yaqoobi and her husband, Mahdi Salami.
The night closed with a traditional rubab performance and fashion show, featuring clothes from MAC Store London and DELICIOUS food from Watani Box and Kulcha Kafe.
The whole event was captured on film by YouTube channel, Your Voice TV1, founded to help change the perception of Afghans and Afghanistan, to one that recognises Afghanistan’s positive, vibrant culture and brilliant people.
What was so special about this event was seeing people with a shared passion to free Afghan women meet, form new bonds and spark new ideas.
The event raised a £609 and put us in touch with some new long term supporters. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Rahela Trust’s AGM and Annual Lecture 2023
In Response to the Taliban’s Latest Edict
A Message From Rahela Sidiqi - 20th January 2023
Rahela Trust responds to current situation and updates on activity.
Why Educating Girls Helps to Fight the Climate Crisis
How is education and the climate linked?
The climate crisis is not a future problem, but a lived reality for billions of people.
Already, the climate crisis is causing extreme temperatures, weather, droughts and floods across the globe, disrupting people’s lives – from livelihoods to food security to household income. These disruptions have consequences on pretty much every area of a person’s life, and one of the most important is education. An estimated 37.5 million learners already have their education disrupted by climate change every year.
These disruptions can be caused by various factors.
Damage to livelihoods, food security and household income can force families to make decisions which remove children or young people from educative environments. This could be to support household chores, finding alternative income, as well as arranging marriages. In some extreme cases, families have resorted to offering their children for child labour, selling their children or organs for money to survive issues caused by the climate. It is not surprising low income households are particularly vulnerable to this.
Moreover, damaged infrastructure, transport links or displacement can interrupt learners’ ability to physically access education facilities.
What does education have to do with the fight against climate change?
The fact that the climate impacts access to education is important, because education has been shown to support climate resilience, adaption and migration.
Directly, formal education develops cognitive and problem-solving skills, knowledge and risk perception. Educated people are therefore more likely to respond better to weather-related disasters, including addressing and coping with risks. Indirectly, education helps to reduce vulnerability through poverty reduction, access to information and social capital. Educated individuals are associated with implementation of disaster preparedness measures; evacuation at times of emergency; diversified and better access to useful information (including weather forecasts and warnings); and greater social capital, including social support and networks. At the community level, this results in populations that are more adaptive and resilient in the preparation for, immediate response to, and aftermath of weather-related disasters.
Not only do we need to be thinking about how to prevent climate change from worsening, we also need to think about how we can best arm our populations to survive the already-changing climate.
What does education have to do with girls and climate change?
As education reduces individual vulnerability to disasters, it is important to equip girls with the opportunity to protect themselves with access to learning. Striessnig, Lutz and Patt (2013) found that girls’ education also improved household and community resilience.
Girls usually have even less access to education than boys, and the climate crisis has been found to exacerbate this further. Climate change has been seen to drive harmful processes associated with preventing girls’ education such as malnutrition; child marriage; injury, illness and death; violence and exploitation; increased poverty; and forced displacement. Other than the fact that climate justice will never be achieved without first addressing the gender dimensions within climate change and environmental degradation (Plan International, 2011), research produced by Kwauk and Braga (2017) identified a positive association between the average number of years’ schooling a girl receives in her country and the country’s ND-GAIN index, a measure of a country’s resilience to climate disasters. For every additional year of schooling a girls receives, her country’s resilience to climate disasters were expected to improve by 3.2 points.
What about the climate and Afghanistan?
In Afghanistan, there have already been six major droughts since 2000 (2000, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2018 and 2021). The 2018 drought directly affected two in every three people through failed harvests and resulting food insecurity as well as empty groundwater reserves, with almost 400,000 Afghans forced to move to other parts of the country (Amoli and Jones, 2022). The drought that began in 2021 remains a concern, particularly as many farmers had yet to recover from the previous drought in 2018 (IRC, 2021). As of December 2021, it was labelled ‘one of the worst droughts and food shortage crises in decades’ (IFRC, 2021). Afghanistan is expected to continue to see levels of warming above the global average, somewhere between 1.4°C and 5.5°C projected under the lowest and highest emission pathways, respectively (World Bank Group and Asian Development Bank, 2021).
As one of the poorest nations in the world and most impacted by climate change, educating girls in Afghanistan is vital to help strengthen Afghanistan’s resilience and ability to cope now and in the future.
REFERENCES
CAMFED on Girls’ education of climate action. Available from: https://camfed.org/why-girls-education/climate-action/
Holloway, K., Ullah, Z., Ahmadi, D. et al. (2022) ‘Climate change, conflict and internal displacement in Afghanistan’. Available from: www.odi.org/en/publications/ climate-change-conflict-and-internal-displacement-in-afghanistan-we-are-struggling-to-survive
Kwauk, Christina (2021), Why is girl’s education important for climate action. Available from: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/02/10/why-is-girls-education-important-for-climate-action/
Pankhurst, C. (2022), What do we know about the links between education and climate and environment change? Available from: https://www.ukfiet.org/2022/what-do-we-know-about-the-links-between-girls-education-and-climate-and-environment-change/
Sims, K. (2021). Education, Girls’ Education and Climate Change. K4D Emerging Issues Report 29. Institute of Development Studies. DOI: 10.19088/K4D.2021.044