The Afghan School Project and Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Clubs will be hosting a comedy show in Ottawa on November 13th to benefit the Afghan-Canadian Community Center.
The comedians performing are Derek Seguin, Ryan Denee and Kwasi Thomas. The show will be held at The Prescott, at 379 Preston Street. Doors open at 7:00 pm, and the show will start [...]
I would like to thank Ali Raza for creating this wonderful picture, and for his expression of hope for the future. We are proud to work hand-in-hand with the people of Afghanistan to build a better future for us all. The courage and dedication of the students and staff of the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC) is an inspiration [...]
Ottawa residents and businesses joined together at Lago Bar | Grill | View on the evening of Saturday, September 20th to help raise more than $3,200 for the Afghan-Canadian Community Center.
The auction was organized by Conor, Oliver and other volunteer members of the Afghan School Project. Close to 100 guests took part in spirited bidding [...]
On August 27th, the Afghan-Canadian Community Center was deeply honoured with a visit by Kandahar Governor Rahmatullah Raufi, who toured the ACCC and presided over the certificate ceremony for close to 250 graduates of the ACCC. The event was covered by local, national and international media, including Kandahar Television, Hewad Television, Afghanistan National television, Aryana [...]
Suhila is one of the students at the Afghan-Canadian Community Center who studies Business Management online with the Southern Alberta Institution of Technology (SAIT). She has performed very well on her courses, and has demonstrated a great deal of skill and determination. In this essay, she describes why she wants to be a project manager [...]
On July 24th 2008, the staff and students of the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC) were deeply honoured by a visit from the Governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khalid, his Chief of Staff and distinguished guests from Kabul, including the former Afghan Ambassador to Belgium. The visit was also attended by journalists from Reuters, Al-Jazeera, and Belgian [...]
The Afghan School Project has started a petition requesting financial support from large international donor bodies, such as the World Bank, the European Union, the United Nations, USAID, and others. This additional funding would be used by the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC) to hire additional teachers, install a solar power system, rent additional buses, purchase new computers, further [...]
In late June 2008, the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC) moved to a larger facility better able to handle the school’s growing student population. The new facility has a total of 15 rooms, including classrooms, offices, a media room, and a library with over 600 books. The ACCC currently operates more than 50 computers, almost half [...]
Despite ongoing insecurity near Kandahar City, the vast majority of students continued to attend classes at the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC). The dedication of the students not only demonstrates their courage and the leadership, professionalism and skill of the ACCC staff, it also reflects the high value placed upon ACCC education by members of the Kandahar community.
The volunteers and supporters of the Afghan School Project would like to extend [...]
The Government of Canada has agreed to provide the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC) with more than $60,000 in funding to establish the Kandahar Capacity Building program, to begin on May 1st 2008 and continue until May 30th 2009.
The capacity-building program will enable the ACCC to hire additional teachers and improve our facilities, thereby allowing us to [...]
