ATVI (Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute)
The Afghanistan Technical and Vocational Institute is designed to support the people of Afghanistan as they strive to become more productive members of their nation's economy. The development plan for this Institute addresses the critical shortfall in skills in construction, agriculture/horticulture, automotive mechanics, and information technology. The supply of highly skilled technical talent in these areas is currently being filled by foreign labor, or simply not at all. These skill areas have been identified by the Afghanistan Government and by international organizations as essential to future economic development. The working plan has been carefully laid out with ATVI initially providing training for 600 male and female students, and targeting to graduate up to 5,000 male and female students per year; drawn from Kabul, other major cities, and the rural areas. Attaining a threshold of 15% female enrollment is requisite to resolving the plight of women under years of neglect that has left their literacy rates of below 20% nationwide and unemployment rates above 80% in many regions.