Founder & Director

Mohammad Yousuf Jabarkhail

(Founder & Executive Director)


"Education is the light every Afghan child needs to have for a bright future." 

"Nothing gives me more joy and contentment than to see Afghan children walking to a public school in cities or villages across Afghanistan. " 

"We need to put all the resources we can get to help all the children of Afghanistan access quality education and be successful leaders tomorrow."


"The real support anyone can provide to Afghanistan is to help educate an Afghan child."

M Yousuf Jabarkhail

Mohammad Yousuf Jabarkhail

Mohammad Yousuf Jabarkhail is the Founder and Executive Director of the Support to Education Program in Afghanistan (SEPA) Organization.  He founded SEPA to promote education and help Afghan children, girls and women in particular access high-quality education in Afghan schools in Afghanistan.

Mr. Jabarkhail is a veteran of the education sector in Afghanistan.    Starting as a primary school teacher in Logar province of Afghanistan, Mr. Jabarkhail went on to teach at Sayed Jamaluddin Afghan High School in Peshawar Pakistan in the 1980s.  Thereafter, Mr. Jabarkhail joined the University of Nebraska's education support program in Peshawar, Pakistan where he planned and executed the USAID-funded Education Support Project (ESP) for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.  At ESP,  Mr. Jabarkhail put together a 20-member team of men and women teachers and trainers to develop a teacher training curriculum and deliver training to in-service Afghan teachers in refugee schools in Peshawar.  The training modules are still used in teacher training programs and projects in Afghanistan. 

Beyond UNO/USAID, Mr. Jabarkhail managed CARE International's Community Organized Primary Education (COPE) project during the first Taliban government in Afghanistan in the 1990s.  As the Program Manager for Kabul, Maidan-Wardak, and Logar provinces, he was instrumental in establishing home-based schools.  After successfully managing CARE's COPE project, Mr. Jabarkhail helped to reestablish the UNO training program in Kabul in the early 2000s and managed the teacher training program to deliver much-needed teacher training to in-service teachers in Kabul.   

Beyond UNO and CARE International, Mr. Jabarkhail has also served as the Country Director and Lead Program Manager for several other NGOs in Afghanistan where he has planned and implemented national development projects.  

Mr. Jabarkhail is well familiar with Afghanistan's difficult circumstances and significant challenges especially faced by women in accessing education.  He founded SEPA to address those challenges and help educate the next generation of Afghanistan with high-quality education in Afghanistan's classrooms.  He leads SEPA's education development programs and makes sure those programs stay aligned with SEPA vision that each Afghan child receives high quality and effective education.