Education Centres in Afghanistan
We have two projects that are being run daily in Afghanistan, these include our:
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Deaf Centre
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Lania Now School (was the Helping Hands School)
Each provides a different service to those in Afghanistan, including education and providing them with better job opportunities for their future.
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"Thank you for donating funds to help 42 families of Deaf Centre to receive 2 months of heating fuel for use during the 2024/25 freezing winter months - SNI Australia.
Deaf Centre
The outlook for the disabled is especially bleak. Without an education, they have little chance of finding paid employment. Since 2005, Shelter Now has run an education and training centre for the deaf and mute.
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The Deaf Centre is a training and education facility for those who are not able to go through normal training programs due to their hearing disability. The program seeks to educate and help these people get jobs and make lives for themselves, despite their disability.
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The Deaf Centre has moved to a new location, with better facilities and more space.
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A space for building confidence
In two different classrooms the male and female students are taught separately.
The ages range from 8 to around 40 years. They study poetical language and culture. According to their interests and giftings they receive job training and help in finding employment.
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The deaf students develop a remarkable level of trust and self-confidence. This is especially obvious with the women and girls. It is a delight to watch them learning in class, and to observe that through such projects it is possible to also develop the worth of a person.
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The students also have a great community spirit as they work through their studies.
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Lania Now School
In one of Afghanistan's cities, Shelter supports a small group of local teachers providing education for approximately 150 primary aged children in 2023, and has grown to 240 students in 2025. The children learn using the Montessori Method.​​​​
Skills and Health/Hygiene Training
In one of Afghanistan's northern citiy of Faziabad,10 to 15 boys are given theoretical and practical instruction in areas such as bicycle repair, painting and electrical skills, as the German Shelter Now director Matthias Stechert reports. Shelter Now is supporting the operation of the center in the 2025/26 training year with around 43,000 euros from donations.
The courses also include basic carpentry, plumbing, tailoring and gardening skills. Many of the participants live in an orphanage for 200 boys between the ages of five and 16 who have lost their parents through war, illness or poverty. Others come from poor families in the city of Faizabad. During school years 9 and 10, they complete course units lasting several months.
Health and hygiene training also known as WASH, is provided in areas where new spring wells are built, with the aim to decrease disease and malutrition in the afghan community.
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Birth Life-Saving Skills (BLiSS) training is also provided for women during pregnancy and after the birth of the baby.
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