Afghan Connection hold Twin School Conference at Bradfield College



Almost 100 delegates from 17 UK and Swedish schools attended the Twin School Conference kindly hosted by Bradfield College.  William Reeve (former BBC foreign Correspondent in Kabul and AC Trustee) and Lady Bridget Cowper-Coles, (wife of HM Ambassador in Kabul)  also attended the conference, together with Manowar Hussain (The Imam of Eton College) and James Fergusson (author of "A million Bullets" - a history of  British military experience in Afghanistan)

As well as presentations by our schools on their work on the project and lectures and discussions by our speakers, we had a live satellite link up with students in Kabul, who travelled to the European Commission office to speak to us from 6,000 miles away!  For some students it was the first time they had left their village. The European and Afghan students were able to talk to each other, ask questions and talk about their very different lives.

We had delegates from a Swedish hearing impaired school, who were able (through both a sign and then a language interpreter) to communicate with hearing impaired students in Afghanistan.