Resources Available for Afghan Students, Scholars, and others
Afghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund (AGFAF): A program designed to provide financial and mentoring support to highly qualified students which compliments their academic scholarships and provides them with the opportunity to work on projects to improve the lives of the Afghan people.
Afghan Talent: Afghan Talent is an initiative to catalog the skills and work experience of Afghan evacuees in the USA to help facilitate local employment. If you have been evacuated by the United States and are exploring your US employment options, you can register yourself on the Afghan Talent Catalog.
Article 26 Backpack: UC Davis has provided a “universal human rights tool for academic mobility.” People 18 and over, whose education has been affected by war, conflict, or economic conditions, can have a safe way to store and share their educational background, employment history, and professional achievements with universities, scholarship agencies, and employers.
Artistic Freedom Initiative: An organization that facilitates pro bono immigration representation and resettlement assistance for international artists at risk. They have recently launched the Afghan Artists Protection Project (AAPP), which is a holistic legal and resettlement initiative developed in response to the crisis in Afghanistan. The project will safely resettle 18 Afghan artists and their families in the United States, and enable them to preserve their livelihoods as artists.
Duolingo: Free language education, available in multiple languages.
Emergency Contact and Information & Fellowship and Sabbatical Opportunities for Scholars and Students, Artists and Cultural Workers, Journalists, Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders in Need and/or At Risk: Compiled by the University of New Europe.
Institute of International Education (IIE) Platform for Education in Emergencies Response (PEER): Supported by the Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education, IIE PEER is an online clearinghouse enabling displaced and refugee students to connect with educational opportunities so they may continue formal and informal higher education.
IIE Emergency Student Fund: IIE’s Emergency Student Fund (ESF) provides grants to international college students in the U.S. when natural disasters, war, or other crises threaten their education. At this time, the Emergency Student Fund is not accepting nominations.
IIE Refugee EdTech Program – edX MicroMasters®: designed to help displaced and refugee students pursue advanced education online, from anywhere in the world, without the need to travel to a university campus. Application deadline past due.
IIE Scholar Rescue Fund: IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund arranges, funds, and supports one-year fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide.
International Dentist Bootcamp: Offered by Tufts University, the International Dentist Bootcamp is a program designed for international dental professionals who would like to develop a successful dental career in the U.S. Participants of this program will receive training in the step-by-step process of the application process to American dental schools for advance standing and specialty programs.
Open Society University Network Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative: Endangered scholars can apply for residential or non-residential fellowships that can include teaching, research, or writing.
Scholars at Risk Resources: Scholars at Risk continues to add to a list of resources intended for students and for those seeking pathways out of Afghanistan.
The School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA): an Afghan-led boarding school for Afghan girls. We’re the first and only of our kind operating anywhere in the world. Currently located in Rwanda after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
United States Special Student Relief: F-1 students can check for suspensions or alterations in regulatory requirements that may include: duration of status, full course of study, and off-campus employment eligibility.
Women for Afghan Women: Women for Afghan Women helps to relocate and support transitions of Afghans across the US to new homes, and support other refugee arrival efforts with their cultural and gender expertise.