Dear teachers and alumnae of the
former Lycée
Bilqis and of the present-day Lycée Jamhuriat,
We hope that you are in good health and doing fine. You have experienced
hard times, and quite a few of you have been scattered all over
the world. It is to those who have stayed here or who have come
back to Kabul that we particularly address this letter.
Many of you may remember the dilapidated and neglected state our
school was in five years ago.
With financial aid from Germany, our School has again become a
sightly building. Not only the facilities have been renovated,
the Lycée itself has undergone a thorough overhaul – thanks
to the efforts of Mrs Meyer-Oehme, one of the former teachers.
The Lycée maslaki Jamhuriat has become a commercial high
school where students now learn two foreign languages – German
and English – and where they acquire solid computer skills
starting as early as grade 8. In the upper grades, the girls
can choose to either train for a position in the business community
or in administration. There are nine buses to transport the students
to the different suburbs of Kabul. Students who want to do their
homework on the school premises in the afternoon are offered
lunch
at the canteen. At 3 p.m. the girls are taken home by bus.
However, a school is not only anchored in the present. When looking
ahead, the heritage of the past should remembered, traditions
should be upheld. This implies establishing contacts to the alumnae,
who
hand down their memories to today’s generation, to the
future.
We would like to get together, to exchange experiences, and to
have a look at our School, which is old and new at the same time.
We offer you, our dear alumnae, the opportunity to taste yourself
the meals prepared at our canteen and to live a normal school
day at the Lycée Jamhuriat as it is today.
We want to get together for tea and biscuits, talking about former
times and exchanging the experiences made in harder times.
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday June 28 at noon in
your old School. If you don’t want to leave your toddlers
at home – bring them along! We would also like to spend
the afternoon with you. Stay as long as you can!
Unfortunately, we only know the addresses of very few of our former
students.
Please help us to get the addresses of former students. In our
modern times of the mobile phone, telephone numbers are most
important. It is only with your assistance that this first meeting
at the
Lycée Jamhuriat can be made a success.
We are grateful for each telephone number you communicate to us.
Please give us a call!
Telephone number: Headmistress Mohsena Nuri: 0799012584
Telephone number: Deputy Headmistress Nurzia: 0202300035
Telephone number: Counsellor Qamar Yelda Karzai: 0799328862