Exam-focused academics
We teach the subjects the Kankor weighs most heavily — mathematics, physics and chemistry, English, and academic reading and writing — with timed practice and mock exams, so the exam is familiar long before exam day.
Our work
Two connected programs, one pathway.
One program teaches in the village, through the hours the school day does not reach. The other takes its strongest students to Kabul for the preparation no institution in the province can offer. Both were tested with private funding before this became a nonprofit, and both are running today.
The pathway
From a village classroom to a university place.
Stage by stage
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Ages 11–18
After-school teaching in the village
Mathematics, physics and chemistry, English, academic reading and writing — in the hours after school closes and through school breaks.
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6–9 months
The Kabul Bridge Cohort
A selected group taken through intensive preparation. The cycle length follows the Kankor calendar.
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One exam
The Kankor
A single national standardized test. It does not care where a student is from — and it does not adjust for how they were prepared.
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The goal
A university place, outside the province
Afghanistan has 166 accredited higher education institutions. One is in Nuristan, and its own site lists two faculties — Sharia and Education — with no postgraduate provision.
Our approach
Disciplined teaching, rooted in the community, measured honestly.
Everything we do is held to three rules.
Community ownership
Every student joins through an agreement signed by a parent or guardian. In Nuristan's close-knit communities, that family commitment is what keeps a child in their seat — and out of household labor during study hours.
Evidence & safeguarding
Monthly assessments and attendance records make progress visible. And we stay deliberately discreet in public — to protect our students, and to keep the program's standing in its community secure.
The two programs
What each program actually does.
The diagram at the top of this page is the shape of it. This is what happens inside each stage.
After-school teaching in the village
Running since 2023, this program teaches middle- and high-school students in the hours after school closes and through school breaks — at a standard the school day does not reach, and toward an end it does not serve: the higher education that few students from these valleys have reached. Attendance is tracked and progress checked every month, and demand from families has been strong enough that enrollment is limited by teaching capacity rather than by interest.
Teaching is delivered by locally recruited instructors wherever capacity allows, which keeps the program answerable to the community it serves and its costs within reach.
- Core subjects: mathematics, physics & chemistry, English, reading & writing
- Middle- and high-school students, roughly ages 11 to 18
- Continuous operation since 2023, with monthly attendance and progress checks
- Planned: teacher training, winter heating, and phased computer literacy with digital safeguards
The Kabul Bridge Cohort
The strongest students are selected by competitive testing and teacher recommendation, then move to Kabul for six to nine months of preparation no institution in Nuristan can offer — subject teaching, language immersion, and disciplined daily study routines. An on-site monitor looks after housing, attendance and welfare; for students living far from their families, that care is not an addition to the academic work but a condition of it.
- A selected cohort in residence, with an on-site welfare monitor
- 6–9 months of intensive STEM and English preparation
- Mock exams, timed practice, and a curriculum mapped to the Kankor
Open the pathway for one more student.
Every contribution goes to teaching, examination preparation, and student welfare — and to the governance that keeps the work defensible.