What is Breaking Bread?
Breaking Bread is a a unique-to-Right to Learn Afghanistan fundraiser where friends, family, or colleagues bring a donation and gather around a meal in support of educational programs for Afghan women and girls.
Breaking Bread events are an easy and fun way to raise funds and make a lasting impact. These events, with their unique and life-affirming combination of food, friends, and fundraising, have formed a vital part of our grassroots support.
Why Host a Breaking Bread?
Everyone has a right to learn. Afghan women and girls over the age of 12 have been banned from attending secondary school and universities. By hosting a Breaking Bread fundraiser, you are supporting the fundamental human right to education and providing educational opportunities for Afghan women and girls. Breaking Breads are one of our main sources of revenue, ensuring we can continue to run high quality programs that enable access to education for women and girls in Afghanistan.
Food Brings Us Together
At the core of every Breaking Bread is a rewarding social experience that involves gathering and sharing. Invite friends, family, or colleagues to bring a donation and gather for a coffee or tea, casual appetizers, or a full traditional Breaking Bread potluck meal.
Host Your Own Breaking Bread!
By hosting a Breaking Bread fundraiser, you are contributing directly to our educational programs, materials, supplies, teacher’s salaries and more.
Each Breaking Bread event is unique and we encourage creativity! Consider raising awareness and funds in one of these ways:
- Potlucks: Our traditional Breaking Bread format where every guest brings a dish to share
- A themed coffee or tea
- Birthday party: whether your birthday, or someone else’s invite friends or family to celebrate and use the time to build awareness about the challenges women and girls face in Afghanistan
Learn More About Hosting:
Learn More and Download our Breaking Bread Toolkit
How Do the Donations Support Afghan Women and Girls?
You are giving the gift of education. Specifically, your donation supports programs that help Afghan women and girls achieve their right to learn, including:
- Monthly internet data packages for teachers and students
- Computers and tablets for online learning
- Learning Baskets with educational materials, storybooks, and nutritious food staples for the whole family
- Group internet for our Digital Learning Centre
- Monthly salary for teachers and teaching assistants
TEACHERS
$500
Monthly salaries for Right to Learn
Afghanistan’s teachers, who deliver the Afghan curriculum online to DD Classroom students in grades 7-10.
SCHOLARSHIPS
$500
The average cost of a one-time
scholarship for an Afghan woman
pursuing higher education, covering tuition, transportation, or other related expenses.
TRANSLATION
$150
Content development and translation of new open education resources for our free, online library for Afghans, DD Library.
INTERNET
$25
Monthly internet data packages of $25 per month are critical for Afghan girls, women, and teachers to connect to online education.
LEARNING PLUS BASKETS
$150
A delivery of nutritious food staples and educational materials to support students and their families.
GROUP INTERNET
$50
Monthly internet provides displaced Afghan youth with the ability to connect to online learning from our Digital Learning Centre in Turkey.
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
$250
Monthly salaries for Right to Learn Afghanistan’s wonderful Afghan teaching assistants who support displaced Afghan students studying in Turkey.
