Eagle Online Academy, a nonprofit organization passionate about long term online education solutions, with a primary focus on women and girls, established 2019 and we have officially launched our courses in August of 2020.
Within the first year Eagle Online Academy empowered 220 Afghan women from 17 different provinces within Afghanistan with online training, resources, and mentorship for their specified certification programs. Just 2 years later, EOA now has 310 women in their certification program, and with all that has gone on in the last year with Afghanistan and Ukraine, they have recently added two more programs to their amazing organization: Empowering Refugees and Educate to Graduate.
Empowering Refugees is a program set to serve Afghan and Ukrainian female refugees, currently residing within the US, by offering ESL courses, a cultural orientation class, and a Job readiness program. These courses are all geared to empower refugee women to not give up on their dreams, and to feel supported and loved in their new home. Currently there are 400 women in the ESL course alone and 132 have completed the job readiness course.
The Educate to Graduate program was created in response to the Taliban, in March of 2022, placing a ban on the education of girls in 7th-12th grade. This ban put more than 2 million girls at home with no hope of completing their education and being able to go to college. EOA stepped in and currently has 120 girls enrolled in classes, and now have over 1,000 additional applications for this next semester. The demand for education is great and Eagle Online Academy intends to meet the need head on.
As funding becomes available EOA plans to:
- Extend our enrollment to another 1,000 Afghan and Ukrainian refugee in our ESL and Job Readiness program.
- Extend enrollment invites to the 1,000+ applicants into their Educate to Graduate program for this upcoming semester, with hopes to have the capacity triple that in 2024
- Extend our enrollment to another 3,000 Afghan refugees in neighboring countries (Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan) who have limited access to basic education.
- Input coursework into our Learning Management System (LMS) in the Dari and Pashto languages. With this software in place we can serve at least 200,000 Afghan girls by March 2023, by allowing other nonprofits and private schools to use our Learning Management System.