Afghan-Canadian Community Centre in Kandahar

The Afghan-Canadian Community Centre in Kandahar has helped educate thousands of Afghan women and girls.^[1][2][3] Among the organizations which have funded the centre are the Canadian International Learning Foundation and the Canadian International Development Agency.

Ehsanullah Ehsan the principal and founder of the school has faced on-going death threats from the Taliban.^[2][4]

References

1. Paul Watson (2011-02-06). "Lack of funds threatens Afghan school for women". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2011-12-28. The Afghan-Canadian Community Centre, where thousands of girls and women have braved Taliban threats to get an education, needs more than $500,000 by month’s end to avoid severe cutbacks, said Ryan Aldred, who heads a charity that supports the school.
2. Paul Watson (2011-03-11). "Afghan school, on verge of closing, gets Canadian lifeline". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2011-12-28. But Ottawa agreed this week to send another $250,000 to keep the school open for the next year while the main charity supporting it tries to find ways to end its constant financial struggle to survive.
3. Steve Rennie (2010-02-05). "Making a difference for girls in Kandahar". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2011-12-28. Despite the danger hundreds of female students come to the community centre in Kandahar city to take courses in English, business management and information and computer technology. They also take online correspondence courses from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary.
4. Ehsanullah Ehsan (2011-04-04). "‘I can tell you that we are bleeding in our hearts’". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2011-12-28. As director the Afghan-Canadian Community Centre in Kandahar and as a school teacher and principal, I was deeply saddened and outraged to hear about the United Nations employees who were killed in cold blood on Friday in Mazar-i-Sharif.