Archive for the ‘Reconstruction and Development’ Category
Program to further strengthen Afghanistan’s agricultural sector
Today in Kabul, United States Ambassador Karl Eikenberry told reporters that the United States and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) have signed an agreement where 260,000 small commercial farmers in Afghanistan, some of them women, will be provided with subsidized access to 13,000 metric tons of certified wheat seed varieties and nearly […]
October 5, 2010
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New building for school in Herat; Seminar for teachers started in Bamiyan
According to a press release issued by the Afghan ministry of education, a stone laying ceremony for a new attachment building for the Atishee High School in Herat province was held today. The new building will take 2 months to build at a cost of $19,300, and it will have 5 classrooms. The ceremony was […]
October 3, 2010
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Posted in: Education, Reconstruction and Development
Video: Bridge dedication ceremony in Farzah District, Kabul province
October 1, 2010
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Posted in: Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development
Road construction projects underway in Faryab, Kabul, Parwan and Bamiyan provinces
Earlier this week, Afghanistan’s Public Works Ministry announced that a 7.7 kilometer road will be built in Maimana, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab. The project will cost $2.4 million and it is scheduled to take one year to complete. The ministry said that the government has given the construction work to a […]
September 30, 2010
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Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development
Construction has started on a new building for a high school in Balkh
Construction on a new school building for the Aliabad high school in the Nahri Shahi district of Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh has started. A press released issued by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education states that the cost of the construction project is estimated to be around $300,000, and that it will take 6 months to […]
September 26, 2010
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New clinic buildings inaugurated; maternal mortality rates drop; health ministry to receive $4.35 million
Three new single-story health clinic buildings were inaugurated today in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh. The new buildings are located in the Kart-e-Noor Khuda, Kart-e-Shad, and Ali Chopan areas of the city. The cost of the construction project which was $450,000 was provided by the Indian government. India’s ambassador to Afghanistan, […]
September 26, 2010
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Posted in: Health News, Reconstruction and Development
Afghanistan and China sign agreement on railway construction
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and the state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) signed an agreement today in Kabul in which the Chinese firm agreed to construct a railway corridor in Afghanistan. MCC will construct a railway corridor from Aynak Copper Mine in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar to eastern Torkham and northern Hairatan border towns. […]
September 22, 2010
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Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development
School building inaugurated in Parwan province
Afghan education officials, Parwan’s provincial governor Abdul Basir Salangi, students, and teachers, attended an inauguration ceremony for a newly constructed 2-story school building, according to a Ministry of Education press release today. The building is for the Ghulam Ali Girl’s Middle School in Bagram district, which is located in central Parwan province. The $207,000 of […]
September 21, 2010
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Posted in: Education, Reconstruction and Development, Women's Rights
New hospital to open in Khost; development projects announced in Farah and Kandahar
This fall, Khost City will have a new 100-bed hospital, according to a NATO news release. Work is nearly complete on the hospital, which will have an emergency room, male, female and children’s wards, mid-wife and maternity wards, x-ray and oncology departments, laboratories, inpatient and outpatient care facilities, as well as office space for medial […]
September 20, 2010
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Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Education, Health News, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development
2 vocational schools to be constructed in Logar
Afghan media reported recently that in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Afghanistan’s Logar province, two new vocational schools will be constructed – one related to agriculture and the other to mechanics. Students will study for two years and will be given a certificate. The goal is to help train Afghans so that they can find jobs […]
September 16, 2010
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Health center to be built in Herat; Farah hospital to get stable source of power
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that a new health center will be built in the Injil district of Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. A groundbreaking ceremony for the center was held last Sunday. The structure will be built by the the Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team. Dr. Suraya Dalil, Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of Public […]
September 8, 2010
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2 new school buildings inaugurated in north eastern Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education announced recently in press releases that 2 new buildings have been inaugurated for schools located in north eastern Afghanistan. One building was inaugurated for a girl’s high school in the Jabal Saraj district of Parwan province. The building has 24 classrooms, 2 administrative rooms, a laboratory, a security room, a room […]
September 6, 2010
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Posted in: Education, Reconstruction and Development
