-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...

-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...

-Coping and Resilience at the GoF, and Actions for the World…

Dear Friends, It was Christmas Eve when we wrote you about the shocking new Taliban restrictions banning women from working for NGOs, which includes the teachers for our project, the Garden of Flowers Montessori Preschool. Your global responses were so strong that we...

– 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...