Who are we?
The Nayestane association funds and supports the creation of temporary learning spaces to ensure that young girls deprived of secondary education receive continuous education, to minimize the impact of the humanitarian crisis on their right to education, and to promote their resilience in the face of challenges.
Our story
It was in response to the Taliban takeover, whose consequences for women were all too predictable, that Dominique Dupuy decided to create an association with Afghan and French friends dedicated to supporting these women, particularly the youngest who were quickly deprived of education.
Dominique Dupuy
Présidente de l’association Nayestane
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20 years
of commitment
Active in Afghanistan since 2002 through an association dedicated to women in war-torn countries, Dominique Dupuy knows this country well and, over these 20 years, has built a reliable network of men and women committed to the education and economic development of Afghans with a focus on gender equality.
It is thanks to them that the first contacts were made with families willing to contribute to the creation of classes for secondary school girls in their homes, with teaching provided by members of their families.
A project supported by the French Embassy
This long-term commitment also quickly gained the support of the French Embassy to the former regime (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan).
Financial support in particular, without which nothing would have been possible.
A Franco-Afghan
women's network
Relations with young Afghan women who worked until 2021 in French institutions in Afghanistan complemented an already efficient network and allowed us to open temporary learning centers in very rural areas where we would not otherwise have been able to. had access.
Celebrating Women’s Day in a school.
147
Temporary spaces created
22
Different provinces
181
Teachers recruited
3229
Young students
Our commitments
Our mission
To remain by all means at our disposal alongside Afghan women, victims among the victims of the Taliban regime.
In particular, providing young Afghan girls with access to a comprehensive and quality secondary education, which strengthens their social and emotional well-being allowing them to fully realize their potential. But also to allow young women who had relied on their education to access a career that is now prohibited, to continue an activity that generates both income and quality social relationships.
But also help protect them from the all too real threats weighing on them due to their professional activities.
Our approach
Nayestane is working to remove the obstacles that prevent young girls from going to school.
We perceive education as a lever of resilience capable of acting on the entire population. The education of young girls being a very sensitive and divisive theme of action in Afghanistan, Nayestane co-constructs her projects with the communities in the areas where she operates in order to ensure the positive reception of the projects and lasting ownership. activities by them.
In this way, Nayestane offers educated young women the opportunity, by sharing their knowledge, to validate the importance of education, because they are often the only source of income for their families, to continue an intellectual activity likely to counterbalance their existential anxiety and remain within a demanding but friendly network, which breaks the isolation to which they are condemned.
Our vision
Nayestane considers access to education as essential and necessary for the proper development of each child.
In a crisis situation, Nayestane considers teaching to be all the more important in that it allows us to maintain a framework, represents psycho-social support and allows us to hope for a better future.
Our partners
