-Trying to Ease a Brutal Winter in Kabul…

The Garden of Flowers is thriving, with 20 young children coming daily to their cozy Montessori school and enjoying a hearty lunch to fortify them against the most brutally cold winter in Afghanistan in ten years. Many are not so lucky. All throughout the city of...

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-Back to Work at the GoF! (Sort Of…)

At the end of December, our teachers Fatima and Razia were among the thousands of other Afghan women banned from working, since they are employed by an NGO (MEPO, as well as our Afghan partners, HEWAD). For the next 20 days (Razia kept count!) they stayed home while...

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– 7300 Days/20 Years Later in Kabul…

This newsletter was sent out by email on December 8, 2022... 7,300 Days of Montessori in Afghanistan Children do not count the passage of time by years. They live by the day. That's why it seems more appropriate to count how many DAYS of Montessori education MEPO has...

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-Celebrating Education and Each Other…

Every day the teachers and adults of the Garden of Flowers brave long taxi rides and stressful conditions on the streets to come to the children. Besides teachers Razia and Fatima, there is Najeeba the cook, and Hedayat and Nik Mohammad, the guards and assistants....

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-A Delicious Harvest at the Garden…

Long before Afghanistan was known for war, it was famous for the quality of its fruits. The sweetness of the fruits that ripen in the intense Afghan sun are one of the great pleasures of life that people still enjoy today. The children of the Garden of Flowers have...

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-The End of a Good Summer…

As we enter the fall season, we look back over the summer as a pleasant and stable time at the Garden of Flowers. The children learned, played, grew. The teachers also grew in their skills and their work as Montessori guides. The children are thriving as a community,...

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More About the Street Aid Program…

By early June, the MEPO staff had slowly and steadily offered food aid to over 100 families in Kabul, providing them with a 2 week supply of food staples in an effort to help those struggling from the economic disaster in Afghanistan. We tried to focus on women and...

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A New Batch of Beautiful Children…

With the start of the new year at the end of March, the Garden of Flowers 'graduated' most of its children to first grade (or higher!) in the local school, and this opened up 15 spots at the Garden of Flowers for more younger children. The new children were welcomed...

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