Since 2008 SOLA has helped the next generation of Afghan leaders obtain world-class educations. Afghanistan’s brightest students, primarily women, prepare themselves at SOLA—Kabul to enter America’s top-ranked schools and universities on scholarship. Thirty-two students are currently enrolled; twelve women from SOLA’s dormitory, offices or classroom received scholarships to schools such as Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke, American U., Tufts, Williams, and Yale in 2010.
SOLA provides free housing and transportation for college-bound women from outlying provinces such as Balkh, Bamyan, Herat, Kandahar, and Kunduz. SOLA is privately funded with support from Friends of Afghanistan (retired Peace Corps volunteers) and individual donors.
SOLA offers courses in reading comprehension, essay writing, TOEFL preparation, and math; guides students through the application process for top-ranked private & public schools and colleges; and facilitates scholarships around the globe. SOLA students all demonstrate the innate leadership qualities needed in all sectors critical to Afghanistan’s foundation as a modern society.
SOLA’s partnership of individual donors, schools, non-profit organizations, and foundations is creating a legacy for these bright youth. They will impact modern Afghan society—their Afghanistan. They will return. To work in health-care, business, law, public administration, and other capacities so urgently required of this uniquely qualified, indispensable,' successor generation.' A generation that understands the meaning of education denied as we Americans never will...
An educated Afghan woman is a multi-generational investment in global peace and prosperity.
