Our Mission:
Afghan Network would like to thank everyone for supporting our site and making it one of the best sites on the internet. We depend on your continuing moral, academic and financial support for our mission to educate Afghans and non-Afghans about Afghanistan and provide our renowned services: 24 hour updated Afghan News Channel, Afghan Bookshop, Music Channel, Culture Gateway, eMail service, VIP iNteractive features and more.

Our History:
Our website started out as a  design for a newsletter and slowly evolved onto the internet as a website. The idea of this website was discussed around March/April of 1997. When the website was first launched in January of 1998, we had only about 4 pages which were incomplete and HTML and JAVA errors were often and we had problem trying to get visitors to our site as we were not known yet and the number of internet users were very small. We were getting only 5-10 visitors a day then...Now we have over 300 pages and are receiving between 5,000 - 8,000 visitors on an average day but we have surpassed the 200,000 visitor mark during events relating to Afghanistan. We get around 250,000 hits a month. Our visitor base is growing at the rate of 10-15% a month. For more stats, visit our Media Kit Centre. The website was first launched on a free website provided by Geocities. Here is the old address but it is not valid anymore, we closed that website in June of '98. www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7877/Index.html. Here is the second edition of Afghan Network (International). The website has gone through 4 redesigning since 1998......See Page. In our first month, the month of January 1998, we had only 150 visitors total. In February 1998, we doubled that number and it was around 450 visitors total. By beginning of March 1998, we decided to register a website by the name of "www.afghan-network" and we used ".net" to since the extension ".net" actually means the word "network". By the end of March, the total number of visitors for the first four months was only 1000.

After the registration, we started to get more and more visitors. We have been growing by the month and now by the week since. Now we are the largest and most visited Afghan website in Canada, Europe and largest and most extensive informational website on the internet. We have been listed in every corner of the internet from newspapers to universities to libraries, Finnish organizations, Swedish research sites, Swiss organizations, military websites, German organizations, other great Afghan sites, Arab sites, Asian information sites to search engines. We have found 1000s links to our Front page and our well-known Afghan News Channel (does not include search engine listings). We also became the "link of the month" on an online German culture-focused magazine and editor's choice on Yahoo in 1999. This website's CULTURE GATEWAY received a Grade of A+ for its focus on Culture and History for the following course: ILST2300 Culture, Globalization & International Civil Society, Professor S. Ziaian. We have received an award for being one of the TOP 500 websites on the internet with great content and design and very high visitor satisfaction with News and Shopping. 

Media Contacts:
We have received Media attention about Afghan Network. We have provided interviews from the following:

For the last two years, our website has been sponsored by 360 Restaurant owned and operated by Wafi Amin in California and technical help from VMSLink, our web hosting company based in Seattle, WA.

Our Audience:
We have become the virtual GATEWAY TO AFGHANISTAN. We are also growing with the diversity of the regions that our visitors are coming from, we are getting people from over 100 countries around the World. Here is a small list of the countries that our visitors are coming from.

And over 25 more nations....................

Our Future:

In the future we are planning to keep this website online and expand it into an even larger hub and be able to promote our country to the World. In the 1-3 years span, plan is to create an international and educational organization. Afghan Network Foundation, the main purpose of this foundation would be to able to educate young Afghans and in the future to expand into helping other nationalities. These missions would include sending resources such as Afghan teachers and trainees for teachers to Afghanistan and to rebuild the Afghan education system. We would support them financially and with networking with US and European education systems and any other way we can. We would try to build schools that are world standard and be able to teach co-education to all the young Afghans. Help build libraries in rural Afghanistan in order to broaden the amount of information available to Afghans in remote areas. This would be done in cooperation with well-established libraries in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and UK. We would have to assess the situation then, but we would have to start from somewhere and we'd like to start from city of Kabul and expand from there to other large cities and towns with smaller branches in smaller towns and villages. These education facilities would be able to get their books and other materials from companies that are willing to donate new books to the schools. Also, with the financial situation of the foundation we would be willing to buy books and materials if necessary. ANF would try to have their own educational institutions. These schools would be build to accommodate large number of students with small classrooms size of about 25 students maximum so that students would be able to learn in a comfortable environment. We would be seeking for scholarships, internships and fellowships from other schools, universities and other educational institutions around the world to mobilize the students and globalize them. Creating partnerships with other schools around the world, we would be able to expand and promote these schools everywhere. The main goal is that within 10 years from the start of the project, we would have a school which would accommodate somewhere around 3000 - 5000 students with about 150 - 250 staff each depending on the location. The project would include about 5 branches in smaller villages. More information about the project will be available soon.....The planning phase is in the works and we are seeking financial and logistical support from individual or corporate donors to this project.

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The AFGHAN NETWORK FOUNDATION will be also creating a Scholarship Fund for Afghan University Students and Afghans Students entering the Universities. We are hoping that by year 2004 - 2005, we will have the ANF Scholarship in place. This scholarship will help finance the students with the their university life. Everything from tutoring, books and other materials and the most important the tuition fees that are high nowadays will be considered for subsidy. This scholarship would be available to ALL Afghans ANYWHERE in the World. The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage the youth to go onto Post-high school studies at Universities and Colleges around the World. The scholarship will not take into consideration what the student is going to study but the status of the Student. Students will be evaluated through their high achievements and also their financial status. The Scholarship will fund students who have either low income or high grades in their educational institution. The number of scholarships available will be decided on the amount of money that the Fund will have. We are hoping that by creating a scholarship of such kind will encourage Afghan students to go on further education in any field. This scholarship will also emphasize on how much will the students will contribute in rebuilding our country. The students pursuing Masters and Doctorate degrees will be given extra attention if they are pursuing to work in Afghanistan for their research period.