Afghanistan National Institute of Music

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A Laureate of the 2018 Polar Music Prize and 2019 Global Pluralism Award.

About ANIM

Founded in 2010 by Dr Ahmad Sarmast, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) is the first and only school of music in the country, where talented Afghan children regardless of their gender, social circumstances and ethnic background are trained in a co-educational environment in Afghan traditional and Western classical music, while obtaining high quality academic general education.

ANIM has a special focus on supporting the most disadvantaged group of the Afghan society – orphans, street working children, women, and girls and its student body represents a mosaic of ethnicities from all parts of Afghanistan.