Our Projects
Two Sparrows Foundation, Inc. desires to bring together a broad set of private, corporate and government partners to build an open, efficient, Afghan setting for accountable international philanthropy. Without these partners, we will not succeed. All of us share a collective purpose of enabling Afghan street beggar children and low-income children to have significantly greater opportunities. Our sponsors will make it possible for Afghanistan's street beggars, orphans and street business children to get the education and vocational skills needed to improve their lives and Afghanistan, as a whole. Each partner contributes in a different way. We are a very young organization. Therefore, we do not have a great amount of resources to undertake grand projects. Instead, we need to focus on projects that give us the most return on investment, projects and missions that will help the most with the least amount of money and labor. We seek to provide aid to those most in need without regard to the recipient's religion or ethnicity.
1. Language training
Afghan children and youths between 8 and 20 will be identified by reputable and unbiased non-governmental organizations for inclusion in the Two Sparrows program. These Kabul children and youth and orphans including, for example, orphans of the Afghan National Police killed in the line of duty will be assessed to determine an appropriate level for literacy and language training. Literacy can help these youths and language training in foreign languages can improve their ability to become appropriately employed. The intent is to ensure they are not drawn to the street. Language and literacy training addresses our first priority which is to create programs that help street beggars, orphans and street business children better themselves and allow these children to escape a dangerous life of crime.
2. "Catch-up" Academic or Vocational Schooling
Our second priority is to help educate academically or vocationally train some of the 35,000 street children who beg or sell small items every day on the streets of Kabul Afghanistan. Many of these children are older but have little or no schooling. This means the schooling will be more intense to allow them to "catch-up" with their peers. For those who achieve foreign language skills, this may involve vocational or academic schooling abroad.
3. Employment Generation, Coaching and Placement Assistance
Our third priority is to create employment opportunities that help street beggars, orphans, disadvantaged youth and street business children directly through employment and additional vocational and educational opportunities.
