Tolo News: Based on the study, 32 percent of six-member families had only one working person. The study shows that 48 percent of families have no educated woman. The level of multidimensional poverty, according to the study, ranges from a low of 12 percent in Kabul to a high of 81 percent in Badghis province in
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education on Saturday announced the start of the new school year and said that more than one million new students will be enrolled in at least 18,000 schools across the country. The ministry’s statistics show that at least nine million students are attending schools across Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: Mohibullah can’t walk, and his parents can’t afford a wheelchair for him. But this 9-year-old in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province is determined to go to school, no matter what.
Ariana: Thirty percent of Afghan girls cannot afford to continue pursuing education due to early marriages and menstruation period, the Minister of Public Health said Tuesday. “Menstruation period causes 30 percent of girls to leave attending schools, 12 percent of the girls don’t have access to health care services, and seven percent of the girls are
1TV: The World Bank will provide Afghanistan with $403 million to support education and women’s empowerment in the country. The agreement was signed between World Bank country director and Afghan finance minister in Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
Al Jazeera | October 10, 2018: Afghanistan’s government is trying new ways to help young men who fought with the Taliban. Some of them are as young as 12 and have been sentenced for offences such as attempted suicide bombing or possessing roadside explosive devices. Prison authorities are converting what were once cells into classrooms, using education and games
Ariana: The Ministry of Education (MoE) says it has the plan of appointing religious scholars as teachers in schools as a move to tackle illiteracy in the country. Some school teachers criticized the Education Ministry over the plan, saying the religious scholars do not have the full capacity of teaching in schools. “Well-experienced individuals should be
Frud Behzan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 17, 2018 Hassan Rahimi recalls the last time he saw Farzana and Atta, his twin daughter and son. He had just ended a grueling shift at a local bakery. It was around noon when he arrived at the family’s cramped, one-room home in Dasht-e Barchi, a poor neighborhood
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, July 15 (Xinhua) — Unidentified armed men set a school on fire in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement Sunday. “Unknown armed men torched Kiptan Baba Middle School in Bati Kot district at midnight Saturday. The school building was destroyed and all the documents and books inside
Foreign Policy: The unceasing conflict in Afghanistan has destroyed the institutions meant to protect children. “Nearly half of the children aged between 7 and 17 years old — 3.7 million — in Afghanistan are missing out on school,” according to the Afghan Central Statistics Organization’s figures in a UNICEF report published this month. Approximately 2.1 million