GCE participants in Kabul developed two electronic magazines TANHA (“Exclusive”) and MASHAL OMEED (“Light of hope”).Magazines are available on the program blogspot: www.rihr.blogspot.com
under the new a link is provided to the magazines, or you can directly access to them at www.stmagazine.blogspot.com
Presentation of magazines was dedicated to the International Women’s Day celebration. Magazines developing groups were composed of students of GCE ILC Kabul and Mariam Girls School GCE computer training center, who are also active members and participants of the human rights youth clubs. The magazines are in Dari language and cover broad topics that are of interest to the youth and cover social, cultural and economical issues. “MSHAL OMEED” magazine includes a number of interesting materials on broad range of topics, such as computers technology and internet; geography (about Great Britain); healthy nutrition and it’s importance; as well as interview with popular young afghan star singer Sakhib Hamdard and an interview with student representative Zuhra; Some other topics also included history of cinema; banking system; importance of recording people’s birth dates (the seventh article of UN child rights convention: each child has the right to have ID of his nationality), and other; The editing committee’s e-m address: Mashal_omeed@ayhoo.com“TANHA” magazine covers following topics: viruses and their influence on human health; honesty and it’s importance; climate and weather (occurrences such as the Sun changing its colors; and wind formation); human reproductive health; importance of human rights; as well as an article in the memory of Sayed Mustafa Kazimi (head of economic department of parliament, who was assassinated in recent Baglan suicide attack in the North of Afghanistan) . The magazines editing committee’s e-mail address: tanha.magazine@yahoo.com
While creating and designing magazine materials, students have significantly improved their computer, design, and internet research skills, which they had used in generating their ideas and writing the articles. Moreover, in the articles written by the students, one can notice the unique skill set developed by the students through GCE program, such as the ability to develop an idea and present a well-structured discussion.