About Us
#AboutKITE
Teaching is one profession that creates all others. We're on a mission to create futures.
Kabul Institute of Teacher Education is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to empowering Afghan teachers through rigorous training, certification, and support to uplift the nation's educational standards.
With your help, we strive to make a lasting difference in the lives of teachers who shape the future of Afghanistan.
#KITEBoardMembers
An advisory board with a strong sense of vision, purpose, and grit.
Dr Edmund Chow (Founder)
With more than 24 years of teaching, primarily in teacher training and pedagogy, Dr Edmund Chow is committed to empowering teachers and transforming learning environments. His PhD research from 2011-2016 focused on Afghan culture and the arts, culminating in publications that explore cultural representation, education, and performance in post-conflict settings. Dr Chow managed a local radio project in Kabul from 2012 to 2013, and has served as advisors to several nonprofit organisations, as well as universities in Afghanistan in the recent few years.
In his keynote speech at Paktia University in 2022, he references Professor Henry Petroski, an engineer who states that skyscrapers are built for 50 years, monumental architecture such as governmental buildings and museums for centuries, and religious buildings like mosques for a millenium. Dr Chow more recently reflected:
"When we build education, we create possibilities. We create futures. We create the very professions that shape our world.”
His vision is to empower educators as builders of these possibilities, laying the foundation for transformative and sustainable change.
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