Education and Challenges in Afghanistan
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“Are you going to school?”
Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face with burning acid. Scars, jagged and discolored, now spread across Shamsia’s eyelids and most of her left cheek. These days, her vision goes blurry, making it hard for her to read.
But if the acid attack against Shamsia and 14 others — students and teachers — was meant to terrorize the girls into staying home, it appears to have completely failed.
Please Click here to read the entire article on the nytimes.com
Despite my own general misgivings about Afghanistan, there definitely are points of light. Dexter's story provides another glimpse. More girls are going to school, for instance.
In regard to long-term education goals, it would seem important that we help facilitate training in a major language such as English or French. If a kid is literate in Pashto, what difference does it make when it comes to entering and accessing the larger world? Literacy in Dari can be helpful because Dari readers can more easily access the world through the Farsi language highway (but the Farsi highway passes largely through the Iranian filter, which might not be particularly helpful to us). It seems that flooding Afghanistan with English learning materials would be in everyone's best interest.
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So, if anybody knows anybody in country who could figure out what needs to happen to make this work, and how they can be reached, please let me know. I'm going to do what I can do to get some wheels turning to gather the resources to make that possible. You can use shamsia
There was an interesting book I saw at Border's Books called The Bookseller of Kabul. I would have bought it, but at the time I didn't have the cash for it on me....now I'm thinking of going back there to get it, just because of this little entry on your site.
Most Afghans with any technical or scientific training were taught in Russian, which has remained the primary language for sharing technical information. Our colleagues are trying to master English, but it is difficult for middle aged people.
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