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Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - drdee - Feb 9 2025
I'm going to start working with this organisation:
https://www.victoryafghanistan.org/
I'd applied to be an English teacher, but because of my work experience and education they've asked me to be a mentor instead. English teachers don't need any experience - commitment is four hours a week (two teaching hours and two prep hours). Mentors should have higher education and work experience - commitment is two hours a week (one meeting hour and one prep hour). All the volunteers work fulltime jobs, so they understand if you have to be careful about scheduling your class time.
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - komorebi - Feb 9 2025
drdee: Thanks for the recommendation! I think I'm going to apply. :)
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - Berry - Feb 9 2025
Wow this is great, thanks for sharing
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - komorebi - Feb 9 2025
Just applied! :D (I had to brush the dust off my resume lmao)
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - ShameMustChangeSides - Feb 9 2025
(Feb 9 2025, 10:16 AM)drdee I'm going to start working with this organisation:
https://www.victoryafghanistan.org/
I'd applied to be an English teacher, but because of my work experience and education they've asked me to be a mentor instead. English teachers don't need any experience - commitment is four hours a week (two teaching hours and two prep hours). Mentors should have higher education and work experience - commitment is two hours a week (one meeting hour and one prep hour). All the volunteers work fulltime jobs, so they understand if you have to be careful about scheduling your class time.
Do you have more info on the curriculum materials and what the structure of the lessons is like? I'm a teacher so I wonder about that stuff haha.
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - drdee - Feb 9 2025
(Feb 9 2025, 2:11 PM)ShameMustChangeSides(Feb 9 2025, 10:16 AM)drdee I'm going to start working with this organisation:
https://www.victoryafghanistan.org/
I'd applied to be an English teacher, but because of my work experience and education they've asked me to be a mentor instead. English teachers don't need any experience - commitment is four hours a week (two teaching hours and two prep hours). Mentors should have higher education and work experience - commitment is two hours a week (one meeting hour and one prep hour). All the volunteers work fulltime jobs, so they understand if you have to be careful about scheduling your class time.
Do you have more info on the curriculum materials and what the structure of the lessons is like? I'm a teacher so I wonder about that stuff haha.
I don't yet, but will when I start. Also I'll be mentoring instead of teaching English, so won't be seeing the curriculum for the latter. They do sound very organised and apparently have lots of materials prepared.
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - Clover - Feb 10 2025
This is such a great organization, thanks for sharing. 💗 I appreciate organizations where "common people" like me can actually do something rather than just donate money.
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - ShameMustChangeSides - Feb 10 2025
(Feb 9 2025, 2:15 PM)drdee(Feb 9 2025, 2:11 PM)ShameMustChangeSides(Feb 9 2025, 10:16 AM)drdee I'm going to start working with this organisation:
https://www.victoryafghanistan.org/
I'd applied to be an English teacher, but because of my work experience and education they've asked me to be a mentor instead. English teachers don't need any experience - commitment is four hours a week (two teaching hours and two prep hours). Mentors should have higher education and work experience - commitment is two hours a week (one meeting hour and one prep hour). All the volunteers work fulltime jobs, so they understand if you have to be careful about scheduling your class time.
Do you have more info on the curriculum materials and what the structure of the lessons is like? I'm a teacher so I wonder about that stuff haha.
I don't yet, but will when I start. Also I'll be mentoring instead of teaching English, so won't be seeing the curriculum for the latter. They do sound very organised and apparently have lots of materials prepared.
When you have more info, will you pass it along please? 🙏🏼
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - drdee - Feb 10 2025
(Feb 10 2025, 11:18 AM)Clover This is such a great organization, thanks for sharing. 💗 I appreciate organizations where "common people" like me can actually do something rather than just donate money.
Yes - I think most of us outside Afghanistan are just sad and frustrated, and powerless - I really hope my involvement with this can at least make a difference in some girls' lives. They're not taking this passively - I love that they're organising and figuring out how to get an education, earn money and escape, and if they believe I can help them then I will. (I also love that their organisation is called VICTORY.)
RE: Teaching English to Afghan women and girls - drdee - Feb 12 2025
I'm a bit disappointed to discover that some of the mentors/teachers in this group are men. I'd have preferred them to ask for women-only. OTOH I guess it's a good thing that there are men who want to help women, and that the women in the programme experience men who aren't actively enslaving them.