Wings2Learn

By supporting Wings2Learn you will be providing children with the essential education items needed to flourish at school. Your help delivers stationery packs to children in remote schools, along with games equipment and fuel supplies to keep classrooms heated in the bitterly cold winter months.

Every child deserves an education. You can help make that happen.

Wings2Learn builds on the long-standing relationship that New Zealand has had with the Bamyan region in Afghanistan. Supported by New Zealanders with first hand experience in the country, the initiative was founded by James Baldwin, who spent time in the Bamyan Province.

James told us that, “what first struck me was the incredible vastness and history of this place. Another thing was the heart and wiry determination of the people who lived here, with productive land scarce and temperatures reaching 40 degrees in the summer and minus 20 in winter. Being in Bamyan also reinforced to me that kids are kids, the world over. Regardless of race, religion or politics. They all love to laugh, play and be themselves.”

Wings2Learn has grown from our successful 2022 pilot project ‘Rise2Play’, which saw our team deliver sporting equipment to schools in the Bamyan region. With the worsening economic situation in Afghanistan, schools advised us that students were unable to buy basic stationery items and teachers were struggling to pay for heating. To meet these needs, we’re supplying schools with items like notebooks, pencils, and fuel for heating classrooms.

“Uneducated people are like blind people. Education helps us to have a vision for our future” – Wings2Learn student when asked ‘why is education important to you?

Our team on the ground in Afghanistan work with schools individually to ascertain their needs. With your help, our team then provide children with a stationery pack containing the items they need, and the school with games equipment and fuel needed for the number of students they have. We build relationships with schools and revisit them to provide further assistance as needed. This tailored approach allows us to maintain a meaningful impact.

Please specify “Wings2Learn” in the comments section when you donate.

If you are an education provider and are interested in having your school sponsor a delivery or just want to learn more about Wings2Learn email ReliefAid’s Education Manager, Bernadette Stockman, at [email protected] to get more information.

“My father couldn’t buy me all of these materials before, and I had one pencil and one notebook. Now, I have plenty of them” – Wings2Learn student.