Congratulations to Pax Populi Academy for completing its first year as a full-curriculum underground school for women and girls in Afghanistan! Over the previous nine months, a group of dedicated teachers, students, and administrators worked selflessly to respond to the massive need for schooling for female students in Afghanistan. What began as an experiment ended as a successful demonstration of what can be done when people work together to create an educational community.
Pax Populi is the people-to-people peacebuilding program of the nonprofit organization, Applied Ethics, Inc. (AE). From 2010 until 2023, Pax Populi acted on its mission by offering educational services, primarily English language training to students in Afghanistan through its online school, Pax Populi Academy. After the return of Taliban rule in August 2021, women and girls were barred from participating in schooling beyond the 6th grade. Pax Populi Academy responded by reinventing itself to become a full-curriculum school dedicated to assisting Afghan women and girls to complete their secondary education.
After months of planning, in October 2023, the new PPA was launched as an underground secondary school with classes held five days a week from October through June, with breaks during the New Year’s holiday and following the Holy Month of Ramadan. After a three-month pilot project with only 10 students, we increased the number of students to 25. The school curriculum was modeled on international standards and includes various forms of mathematics, such as pre-algebra math, algebra I and II, etc., computer science, biology, history, conversational English, and academic English for research and writing.
Our second school year will begin on August 26, 2024. The application period for the 2024-2025 school year is over and decisions on admissions have been made.
Our upcoming class is expected to expand to approximately 75 students.
For questions, please write to info@appliedethics.org or lara@appliedethics.og.
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