Project Name:    Women’s Community and Peace Building Centre(WCPBC)
Location:     Mazar-e-Sharif
Duration:       Five years 
Start Date:      2005
End Date:      2009
Beneficiaries:     2200 men and women
Funded by:      Women Kind

Project goals:
•    To run a women’s centre in Mazar-e-Sharif city with a focus on peace education and community awareness raising
•    To develop and disseminate peace education for women

Project objectives:
•    To encourage the local population to allow women to participate in the upcoming political processes
•    To increase women’s self-sufficiency by providing vocational training and literacy programs
•    To increase women’s understanding of rights, political and civic participation and peace education
•    To promote men’s understanding and support of greater freedoms for women
•    To provide women with new options and ways to support each other through counseling, health education and awareness raising workshops
•    To link suitable women ismall business development training (CEFE model)
•    To create a drop-in center for learning and discussion for women in the surrounding community

Major Activities:
The project started in 2005 in Mazar-e-Sharif, by conducting literacy classes for illiterate women.
Health education was included in a daily literacy program and teachers used ICRC (International Comittee of the Red Cross)  Health education guidelines for community health educators.


During 2007, 58 peace education workshops were conducted and approximately 1,800 beneficiaries participated in these workshops. The issues discussed in workshops were: peace progress in the community, social development, conflict, reasons of conflict, different levels of conflict, violence, kinds of violence, physical and psychological violence, imagination , human rights, human rights in Islam, women's rights, child rights, democracy and peace.