On March 23, 2022, when the new school year started in Afghanistan and Taliban had promised to reopen secondary schools and girls of grade 6 to 12 were on their ways to schools, Taliban took a U-turn and issued an on-the-spot decree to close the schools’ doors to the girls. Hopeless, helpless, and tearful, girls facing closed doors of their schools returned home. In order to prevent further delay in the schooling of these girls, Eagle Online Academy extended their services to serve Afghan girls from grade 7-12. For the initial stage we are using platforms such as Zoom Google meet, Google classroom, WhatsApp and Skype and other video conferencing applications to teach the traditional curriculum and text. We are using the existing previous government ministry of education curriculum and digitalize them to distribute for our students online. Beside that we have more than 3,000 hours of educational videos based on same ministry of education curriculum. At this moment time we are serving 120 Afghan girls from grade 7-12 to continue their education with 1230 application pending. Geographically, we can cover all Afghanistan as there is no limit to virtual programming. The hope is that Taliban would understand the importance of education for girls and allow secondary schools to reopen. When schools reopen, this platform can focus on those girls who are not allowed by their families to go out and go to school. We can continue tutoring the schoolgirls to enhance their learning and other professional training programs.

As funding becomes available EOA plans to:

• Extend enrollment invites to the 1,000+ applicants into our online school program (Educate to Graduate)  for this upcoming semester, with hopes to have the capacity triple that in 2024