by allison | Jun 20, 2023
The newsletter below was sent out on June 19, 2023. To sign up to receive updates, please go to Contact. Summertime in Kabul It’s been a quiet few months in Kabul, in the Garden of Flowers Montessori Preschool. While this doesn’t make for exciting...
by allison | Jun 16, 2023
No news? Nothing shocking? That’s right, the last 3 months at the Garden of Flowers have been quiet, normal, positive, stable. What more could we want in a place like Kabul? Days with ice cream from the ice cream man, and planting flowers, and welcoming new...
by allison | Jan 27, 2023
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...
by allison | Jan 27, 2023
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...
by allison | Oct 10, 2022
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....
