Serve Afghanistan has been involved in developing mother tongue literacy programmes among the Pashai communities in the east of Afghanistan and advocating for multiple language education for minority language groups in government schools, since 2006. Serve Afghanistan’s tireless work in this under-developed field was recognised by UNESCO, awarding it the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy in 2009 for its contribution to providing meaningful literacy, livelihood, public health and nutrition education for Pashai ethnic minority men and women.
Serve Afghanistan has been regularly training local government teachers to enable Pashai students to learn their mother tongue. Books and materials in the Pashai language have been developed for children and adults.
This year (2025), 640 children (320 boys and 320 girls) including 5 children with disability, have access to quality, basic education through the preschool and after school programme. The children who have studied from our pre-school and after school are brilliant, more confident, and have better social skills than those who have not attended our programme.
