Dear Friends and Supporters:

In summary, Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan in 2007 has made great strides toward our objective of making available literacy through third grade education via satellite television for all of Afghanistan’s children who have no schools or teachers. But -- we are not there yet.

Reporting backwards from the date of this report, here are the highlights on a month by months basis of the year -- and one last opportunity for you to participate right now!

December 2007:

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) notified us earlier this month that our proposal has passed first review, and will be presented to the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington in mid-January. We are asking everyone whom they might listen to, particularly our congressional friends and supporters, to send faxes, emails and telephone.

Here is YOUR opportunity to participate: Please call, fax and email to:

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Attention: Anisa Afshar

Assistant Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa

1025 F Street, NW, Suite 800

Washington D.C., 2004

Telephone (202) 378-9587 Fax (202) 378-9787.

Please send us a copy of anything that you send to the NED. Thanks.

November 2007:

Joining other organizations in the Northern California area, Filip Sain participated in the organizing of the Afghan Reconstruction Summit, which is being held on the 15^th of December in Fremont, CA.

We met in November with Fatema Mustaq, former Minister of Education for Gazni Province, Afghanistan who agreed to assist us in various ways in Kabul. She is a veteran of years of home schooling of girls during the Taliban era, and was in California at the invitation of Afghan Friends Network, which is supporting her new project, a college preparatory school for high school girls in Gazni. We were pleased to be able to get her a laptop computer to take back to Afghanistan with her.

October 2007:

Our technical support group reviewed and then put in an order to “Get One Give One” of the “One Laptop Per Child” new prototype laptop computer for developing countries. This was created at the MIT Media Lab by Nicholas Negroponte, and is being promoted by them. This new technology may be appropriate to add to our “school in a box” of equipment, with the solar cell and satellite dish, instead of a large television screen.

September 2007:

At the suggestion of congressional staffer Edward Burrier we began preparing our application for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Julia Silverton, an accomplished and award-winning film maker, of Skullywolf Films, Inc, prepared a realistic film-making budget, including everything down to lunches for the gaffers and post production crew. The numbers are large, but all crucially necessary for a professional pilot video.

August 2007:

Our executive producer, Sosan Armon, began to divide her professional time between the Los Angeles Embassy of Afghanistan and another major Afghanistan satellite television station. We will continue to work with her prior station also.

July 2007:

In a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Phillips (original name Carol and Daoud Nazaar), Sosan Armon, Julia Silverton, Carol Ruth Silver and Sosan’s mother (recently arrived from her job with the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan), had a detailed discussion of the proposal of David Phillips for a new educational television station for Afghanistan. The group decided that the Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan proposal would fit nicely into the proposal for the Afghanistan educational television program, but could also be funded separately, and that separate applications would continue to be made.

June 2007:

Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan was privileged to obtain the pro bono representation of a major international law firm, Fenwick and West. Robin Schulman, an associate in the intellectual property section, has been primarily responsible for our case file.

We have also continued to work with Jason Miller, of Boston Consulting Group, a business consultant and a graduate of the public policy school of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard.

May 2007:

We were honored to have a visit during his travels for other business from Eng. Latif Ahmadi, head of Afghan Film, an agency of the government of Afghanistan which is in charge of preserving the library of films made in and about Afghanistan, and also developing the Afghan filmmaking industry. The Mulla Nasrudin program concept was developed at his studio in Kabul.

April 2007:

As all our friends and supporters probably know, this month we presented our proposal for Master Teacher by Satellite for Afghanistan at a briefing before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in the House Office Building in Washington D.C. We played the video which we had prepared of five one-minute excerpts of videos we hoped to utilize, from:

The Alphabet Song, an original song for children by an Afghan-Canadian for singing the Dari alphabet, contributed by Louise Pascal;

The Mulla Nasrudin Literacy Show pilot which was done for us by Ariana Afghanistan Television (AA-TV);

How Najib Discovered Levers, a pilot done for us by educational consultant and teacher trainer Camilla Barry of Barry Scientific, Marin County, California; and

Two puppet children’s programs, which we hope to dub into English from the languages in which they were filmed -- one is:

Sesame Street, in Arabic filmed in Egypt, and the other is:

Tsehai Loves Learning, featuring a family of giraffes, in Amharic, filmed in Ethiopia.

Our written testimony, submitted afterward, was duly recorded and is available from the Caucus. It is available also on our website, www.Afghan-Satellite-Teachers.net. The Human Rights Caucus during our briefing was chaired by Sheila Jackson-Lee, Democrat, of Houston, Texas, who is also the co-chair of the Afghan Caucus of the House of Representatives.

The day before the testimony, we were given a lovely reception at the offices of Zeba Magazine, an Afghan Magazine of style and culture, honoring the California team of Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan which had made the trip to Washington for the briefing, including Wahida Noozad, Philip Sain, Susan Diamond and Carol Ruth Silver.

March 2007:

Through the good offices of Camilla Barry and her enrolling in a film school in San Francisco, we obtained the advice and endorsement of Stephen Kopels, the president of San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking. It was at the school also that Camilla was able to do her pilot video for us.

Sally Mallam, head of the foundation which is the custodian of the works of Idriss Shaw, was gracious enough to meet with us and to discuss the concept of using Mulla Nasrudin in the programs that we have projected. She and her associate, Dr. Robert Ornstein, are very interested in our work and we believe that we can cooperate successfully with them.

With great pleasure, we can report that a draft memorandum of understanding was prepared between our organization and Equal Access International, Inc, Ronni Goldfarb, founder and president, and her associate, solicitor Michael Bosse. They have agreed, subject to working out the details, to act as our fiscal agent in Afghanistan, particularly if we are successful in obtaining a U.S. Federal grant, since they have significant experience in that regard in Afghanistan.

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We invite anyone who wishes to see the history of MTSA to go to our website, www.Afghan-Satellite-Teachers.net. There all the reports are available, and as well the video of our excerpts. Also available is the video of the Voice of America report on our organization which was done in April, and reported in Pashto.

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ADVISORS

(partial list)

Humaira Ghilzai

Sosan Armon

Nabil Miskinyar

Hon. Fatema Mustaq

Tamer Ali

Eng Latif Ahmadi

Jamila Afghani

Ghulam Qader Popal

Filip Sain

Wahida Noorzad

Sandra Camacho,RN, DC

Ahmad Shah Alam

Winnie Thompson

Gerry Thompson

Farida Azizi

Rona Popal

Homira G. Nassery

Hon. Omar S. Sultan

Rahima Haya

Meryem Katibi

Stephen Kopels

Hon. Bill Quirk

Najib Roshan

Pietro Calogero

Susan Aumack

Stanley Myerson, PhD

Camilla Barry

Mallory Pearce

Marianne O’Grady

Jane C. Weidman

Susan Diamond

Paula Fiscal

Joe Griffin

David Fleishhacker

Virginia Resner (D)

Nate Coleman

William Chayes

Jane Swinerton

Martin P. Sherman, Esq.

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AFFILIATES

Equal Access, Inc.

Radio Television

Afghanistan (RTA) Afghan Film, Inc.

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LEGAL COUNSEL

Fenwick & West LLP

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STAFF

Carol Ruth Silver,

Project Director

Sosan Armon,

Executive Producer

Jason S. Miller,

Associate Director

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