In Baghlan province, the Kator Foundation rehabilitated damaged classroom roofs at village schools that had fallen into disrepair. The work involved removing damaged sections, replacing rotted timber, and rebuilding the roofs with materials that will withstand the harsh winters and heavy snows of northern Afghanistan. The result is classrooms that are once again safe and dry to learn in.
A leaking or collapsing roof is not just an inconvenience — it shuts a school down. Children cannot study under a roof that drips on their books or threatens to fall. Teachers cannot teach in a classroom that fills with snow in the winter or dust in the summer. Repairing the roof is often the single thing standing between a closed school and a working one.
This project was made possible by our donors. Your support did not build a new school, but it saved an existing one — and that may be the most efficient form of help there is. Every child who now sits under that roof is a child whose education was preserved by what you gave.
We believe that what already exists in a community is worth protecting. These repaired classrooms will serve thousands of students over the years to come, quietly, every school day, without ceremony. That is the kind of impact we are most proud of.