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This comes within a week of the whooping $60 million grant from Canada for developing the education sector in the country.
Afghanistan: Transforming a "13th Century Curriculum into a 21st Century Curriculum"

Building Islamic schools in Afghanistan has become a top priority for Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government as it struggles with the Taliban insurgency.
Afghanistan: Transforming a "13th Century Curriculum into a 21st Century Curriculum"

MAHMUD RAQI - Over five thousand school students in the central Kapisa province are suffering from lack clean of drinking water, with some losing consciousness due to hot and humid weather conditions.

Seventeen people, including 12 schoolchildren, have been killed in a suicide bombing in south Afghanistan, the country's interior ministry says. Another 30 people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on a market place in Dehrawood in Uruzgan province, where Taleban militants are active.

A group of girls returning home from school in Afghanistan's Logar province recently did not for a moment expect what lay ahead. As they walked down a dirt track, insurgents sprang out of the parched farms and began firing on them. Some of them fled into the farm, but two girls, one aged 13, the other 10, were killed in the ambush. Three of their friends were wounded.
Afghanistan: Transforming a "13th Century Curriculum into a 21st Century Curriculum"

Abdul Kabir, not his real name, left his home in Afghanistan's southern Urozgan province to work for a relative and attend school in neighbouring Kandahar province. Six months later, the 12-year-old found himself in a juvenile prison after being sexually abused.

A nine-year-old Afghan boy works in a small Kabul carpet factory. In Afghanistan's capital alone, an estimated 50,000 children work full time to help support their families. According to the country's Human Rights Commission, 80 percent of these workers are boys; 54 percent are between 12 and 14, and 33 percent are between eight and 10 years of age.

 

WASHINGTON - An influential Congressional caucus on Human Rights held a special hearing on educational system on Afghanistan. Headed by two powerful Congressmen, Tom Lantos and Frank Wolf, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus during its one of its hearing analyzed the educational needs in Afghanistan and discussed ways and means to remove the obstacles.