School Principal:
Mrs. Zarghona (20191127)

Background Safia Ama Jan Girls High School in Kandahar City’s Aino Mena neighbourhood:
Safia Amajan Safia Ama Jan, teacher and public servant, born 1943; died September 25 2006. (She was teaching in Zarghuna Ana high school.) Safia Amajan school was established in 2009 and currently has a teaching staff of 66, with a sole male teacher.   Today, the school looks completely different and is able to accommodate more than 2,500 students. Due to the support from the Education Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP), the school has three proper buildings now. The school has three different shifts of students every day.
 

The school, which started with 12 classrooms, now has 48 but this may prove to be insufficient given the school’s popularity.

To meet the demand for places, a 12-classroom building was built recently with an Infrastructure Development Grant of $102,717 from EQUIP. In addition, EQUIP provided the school a Quality Enhancement Grant (QEG) of some $15,000 for purchasing school supplies, equipment for the library, laboratory, and computer laboratory, and a solar energy system to generate electricity. EQUIP II, the second phase of the program, seeks to increase equitable access to quality basic education, especially for girls. It is implemented by the Ministry of Education and funded by the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF).  EQUIP was originally supported by the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank Group’s fund for the poorest countries.