School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA) Revenue and Competitors

The School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) is Afghanistan’s first and only boarding school for girls. SOLA enrolls more than 80 girls in grades 6-10 at its Kabul campus, with students hailing from 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. SOLA pursues a growth model through which it adds a new class of 6th graders annually; by 2022, SOLA aims to enroll more than 100 girls in grades 6-12, representing every province in Afghanistan. SOLA operates against the backdrop of a 63% illiteracy rate for Afghan teenage girls, and does its work in a country where nearly 3 million girls are out of school and 33% of Afghan girls are married before their 18th birthdays. SOLA’s leadership-driven curriculum takes students from believing their role in society is to raise a family to becoming critical thinkers who understand they have the power to shape their nation’s future.