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To prepare a
better life opportunity for Afghans, they need to have an easy
and possible transportation facility. Girls and women who make
more than half present of the population of the country, are not
able to use at least one of the possible transportation
facilities.
In some of Islamic
countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Muslim countries in the
Middle East, African countries and in
the Muslim communities in western countries, girls and women are
using bicycle as transportation means.
Afghan Social
Development Foundation “Shahmoama” (in Netherlands) want to prepare the
opportunity for Afghan girls and women and
encourage them to use bicycle in their
daily lives. We are glad that through implementing this project,
we would make our Afghan sisters able to use one of the most
possible and convenient transportation means
so
we can bring a
positive change in their daily lives and they
will become independent.
The importance of this project:
Due
to nearly three decades of war in Afghanistan women and girls
have been the main victims in this country. Through our project,
we want to help them to support themselves. We want to encourage
them to use bicycle for going to school, work, shopping and
anywhere they need to reach in the city.
Some
15 years ago in Kabul, there were few girls and women who used
to use bicycles. Later the practice was totally banned. Now that
the situation has changed and girls are going to school and
women are working in offices, it is possible to encourage them
to be self-sufficient in daily life. The first step can be
providing them with the opportunity for outgoing in a safer and
easy way.
Mostly people there are using buses and cars for going from one
place to another. As a result transportation has become
increasingly difficult in small cities with insufficient
infra-structure. It takes hours to go from reach the intended
destination. Besides, people are not able to pay for the
transportation costs and according to the information, women are
walking very long distances from small villages and cities for
hours to bring their children to the doctor or go for shopping.
Besides, due to the increase of cars and transportations that
makes pollution, the weather of Kabul is getting worse and
causes diseases, especially for the children. Through our
project, we would like to encourage people not to pollute the
environment.
One
of the reasons that women and girls are not used to use bicycle
is that in Afghanistan, lady-bikes were never imported and girls
or women can not use other man-type bicycles. Through this
project, we import lady-bike with special saddle and we produce
child safety seat, special bag for the bicycle, basket and other
necessary equipments for the bicycle.
The
newly designed Afghan Women Bike Project will practically assist
girls and women in Afghanistan to practice a better and more
reasonable method of transportation.
About
40 % of the budget of this project is funded by Cordaid.
We
are kindly requesting those individuals/organizations that have
interest in this project to contact us and support this project.
Bank Account:
Stchting Shahmoama
(Afghaanse Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling)
or (Afghan Social Development Foundation)
Postbank / Leeuwarden
Girorekening 2997637
IBAN: NL 26 PSTB 0002 9976 37
BIC: PSTBNL21
For
more information and details, please contact: shahmoama@yahoo.com
Learning Basic Ruls of Traffic
(in Persian)
Prepared by: Manizha. Naderi
License Holder: Shahmoama
March 2008, Holland
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