Ghousuddin Frotan

Class of 2022

Ghousuddin Frotan is a journalist who worked for Radio Liberty (Azadi Radio), AFP, BBC Radio Pashto service and the Wall Street Journal. Frotan founded Hindara Educational and Social Development Organization, which has implemented many projects concerning education, human rights, democracy, good governance and youth development in different provinces of Afghanistan. As part of a joint initiative of Hindara and the Canadian International Development Agency, in 2008 15 youth from Kandahar high schools completed a photojournalism program called Kandahar Through Afghan Eyes. In 2010, Frotan established the WESA Academy, the first English Medium School in Kandahar City; it currently has 1,218 students, 583 of them girls. Frotan led the team that developed the Afghanistan Edition of the standard Oxford curriculum for schools across Afghanistan. He also founded the children’s magazine Ako Bako, whose name is taken from a famous folkloric song that has been sung by children throughout Afghanistan’s history across all regions and languages.