Announcement

Construction Starts on Two Kabul High Schools

Schools will serve approximately 10,000 male and female students.

Kabul, Afghanistan  | Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Photo: USAID/UNOPS

Construction begins on a high school in Kabul.

The United States Government and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) have started construction work on Ghazi Boys High School and Sardar Kabuli Girls High School in Kabul, Afghanistan.  When completed in 2010, these USG-funded schools will provide modern classrooms, laboratories, and other learning facilities for approximately 10,000 Afghan high school students.  The schools are being designed and constructed to international seismic safety standards to prevent tragic school collapses during earthquakes like those in Pakistan in 2005 and China in 2008. 

The final designs for both Kabul high schools fully comply with the 2006 International Building Code, which is considered the most stringent engineering standard in use today.  As a result, the Sardar Kabuli Girls High School will be the most structurally sound multi-story building in Afghanistan.  These design standards have also been incorporated in design modifications for Ghazi Boys High School and numerous other USG-funded building projects across the country.