Every number here is a girl.
Not a statistic. Not a data point. A girl who opened the app this morning, studied a lesson, and moved one step closer to the future she was told she couldn't have.
Girls currently sponsored and learning
Video lessons in Dari and Pashto
Lesson completion rate
Provinces reached
34 provinces. One mission.
From Kabul to Badakhshan, from Herat to Kandahar — ILM reaches girls in every corner of Afghanistan. The map below shows active learners across the country.
One girl. One sponsor. One year.
August 2021
The ban begins
Two years later
Nothing but housework
March 2024
A sponsor changes everything
Today
142 lessons. Wants to be a doctor.
Fatima was 13 when the ban started. For two years, she did nothing but housework. Her brothers went to school. She swept floors.
In March 2024, a sponsor from Toronto funded her access to ILM. Within three months, she had completed 142 lessons. Her teacher said she was working at a grade 9 level — two grades ahead of where she stopped.
Today, Fatima studies three subjects a day. She wants to be a doctor. Her sponsor has never met her, but every month receives a report showing exactly how far she's come.
This is what one sponsorship does. Multiply it by 4,200.
I do not know who my sponsor is. But I want them to know — every lesson I finish, I finish for both of us.
— Fatima, age 15, Herat province
I'll never meet her. I don't know her name. But every month I open the report and see — 52 lessons completed, 3 assessments passed. I feel like I'm watching my own daughter grow up.
— David R., sponsor from Toronto
That is the number of girls we have turned away. Every single girl who applies receives access. No waitlists. No selection criteria. If she wants to learn, she learns.
This is not slowing down. It's accelerating.
girls enrolled
January 2024
girls enrolled
June 2024
girls enrolled and learning
Today
What your sponsorship has built.
Average lessons completed per girl per month
Subjects studied every single day
Of sponsors continue after their first month
The ban cannot stop her
Right now, somewhere in Kabul, a fourteen-year-old girl is studying algebra on a phone hidden under her bed. She has not missed a single lesson in nine months. Sponsor her.