Mother International Institute of Education - MIIED
Mother International Institute of Education (MIIED) was established by Afghan scholars in the diaspora to deliver free quality online education to girls across all Afghanistan provinces. MIIED programs have been devised to bypass school closures and allow girls to resume schooling to the completion of Year 12.
Classes are taught in indigenous languages by local teachers. Students completing their secondary studies are empowered to gain internationally recognized qualifications, and achieve meaningful professional jobs.
The MIIED program is based on Afghanistan’s National Curriculum and organized using Learning Management System (LMS) standards. MIIED provides and manages online courses using Moodle Cloud with teachers/instructors inside and outside of Afghanistan.
MIIED programs are all coordinated and delivered by volunteers, with costs of the website and Moodlecloud covered by the founders. To now, we have been able to cover the internet costs of volunteer teachers in Afghanistan through crowd-funding, but essential administrative and educational costs and the growing demand for more places and digital capacity, and cannot be met without a proper budget.
Senior high school and higher education for young Afghan women is vital for their intellectual and social development, the future of their communities and their regions – for Afghanistan as a nation. Women need to be able to participate actively in decisions that affect them and their society. Without women’s voices, poverty and social disadvantage grow.
MIIED recognises that women are an indispensable and intrinsic part of any community, and key to building positive futures everywhere. Women and girls represent over half the population – their perspectives insights and qualities benefit all aspects of community, economy and governance, and they broaden and elevate the moral compass of the nation.
MIIED visualises a future where developing countries anywhere may benefit from the online technologies and methods we trial and refine, using our model which facilitates classes taught in local languages, a huge step towards overcoming educational disadvantage due to language barriers.
Given the chance, women’s contributions will be important for managing not only their own regional issues but global complexities, climate change, uncertain markets, social cohesion, the pursuit of law and order, peace and justice.
