Construction of New Building for Afghan Centre at Kabul University Began
27.07.2009
On Saturday, 25 July, Estonian Charge d’Affaires in Afghanistan
Daniel Erik Schaer participated in the laying of the cornerstone for
the new building that is to house the Afghan Centre at Kabul University
(ACKU). The event was opened with speeches by Nancy Hatch Dupree, the
director of the Afghan Centre, and Muhammed Azam Dadfar, Afghan
Minister of Higher Education.
Charge d’Affaires Daniel Erik
Schaer emphasised that one of the goals of Estonia’s development
co-operation activities is to help raise the level of education in
Afghan society. “The construction of a new building for the Afghan
Centre at Kabul University will provide students, instructors and
researchers with much better access to and opportunities to use the
centre’s collection of information,” Schaer stated. The establishment
of a new building also allows for the creation of the necessary storage
conditions for the ACKU’s unique collection, which currently contains
about 38 000 documents and is constantly growing.
In 2007,
Estonia supported the compilation of the necessary project
documentation for the creation of the new ACKU building with 500 000
kroons, as well as the renewing of the Afghan national archive and
mobile library with 440 000 kroons. The architect of the new building
is Sebastian May.
