Supporting vulnerable children with educational needs and psychological wellbeing in Bala Marghab and Ab Kamari districts in Badghis province Educational activities through Community-based Education (CBE) in emergencies will prove as a means of restoring a sense of normality to the lives of children in disrupted communities in Afghanistan, and it will contribute significantly to overcoming the psychological and other forms of distress that many children are experiencing. 
The proposed project will enable APWDO to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis including educational needs of 5600 vulnerable children (50 % girls) through 160 community-based classes (CBCs) in Ab Kamari and Bala Marghab districts in Badghis province. 100 CBCs for 3600 children will be established in Bala Marghab district and 60 CBCs will be established in Ab Kamari district in Badghis province. APWDO will renovate all CBCs and will rehabilitate 80 toilets/latrines. Similarly, 160 teachers will be recruited and trained to teach the community-based classes.

In support of these objectives, the program will provide protective and safe learning spaces, procure essential teaching and learning materials, train school management shuras and mobilize communities to strengthen resilience and social cohesion for children in the communities, train teachers and education personnel, and carry out light rehabilitation work in 15 public schools (10 in Bala Marghab and 5 in Ab Kamari) to strengthen the educational pathways for vulnerable boys and girls and to ensure more children have safe space in public schools as well.

Additionally, the program will not only organize a 12-day training of teachers as per the standard teacher training manual, but also will train and sensitize school management council members on importance of education, monitoring of CBE and contribution towards project.

APWDO, through this project will implement different activities in Badghis province in close coordination with Education Cluster on national and subnational level, local administrations, and other development partners and stakeholders. The activities implemented under this project will include: 

o Establishment of CBE classes and temporary learning spaces (TLS) where integration into existing facilities is not possible or safe
o Provision of teaching and learning materials (TLM) to children, teachers and classrooms
o Identification and hiring of Education in Emergencies (EiE)/CBE teachers and training them on core pedagogy, PSS, child safeguarding, child protection, and prevention from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA)
o Provision of minimum WASH for CBE/TLS (water for drinking and hand washing, etc.)
o Training school management shuras and mobilizing communities to strengthen resilience and social cohesion for children in the communities
o Establishment/strengthening existing community-based child protection mechanisms to address child protection concerns of children from IDP communities/families
o Establishment of linkages with local formal schools for direct integration (where possible) or integration of children after a cycle of EiE programming
o Light repairs/rehabilitation of hub schools, especially WASH facilities, to enable them to absorb more children

APWDO has provided education and psychosocial support to vulnerable youth and adolescents since 2010 in Nangarhar, Kunar, Kabul, Laghman, Badghis, Kandahar, and Helmand provinces through different projects (currently implementing Malala Fund project funded by UNICEF in Nangarhar province).