Building a strong community of professional women is an unfamiliar concept in many Afghan workplaces. However, some institutions, such as Kabul Education University (KEU), recognize the value of that women bring to the workplace and encourage their female employees advance their professional credentials and support each other.
On April 23, twenty-three female KEU faculty graduated from a USAID training course on problem solving and decision making. The course will ultimately enable Kabul Education University’s faculty to design better, more interactive university courses for Afghanistan’s future secondary school teachers.
During the training, participants learned about the decision making process and brainstormed ways to increase unity among women faculty members at the university. Each participant wrote and signed a commitment to doing one thing to increase unity, and many of the participants were excited to work together and help others. Several women joined together to propose providing literacy courses for the approximately 20 women employed as cleaners and cooks at the university.