Phil Borges

Hadia, age 11                   Out-of-School Girls Program, Kabul, Afghanistan
By 2000, UNICEF reported that only 4 to 5% of Afghan children were being educated at the primary school level. Fewer still had access to secondary and university-level education.
According to the World Bank, “Since 2002, more than 6 million students and teachers have returned to school.” 
The organization, Ayni Education [...]

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There are many who believe that the greatest handicap to development in Muslim Middle Eastern societies is the status and roles they give to women.  Nowhere has this been more evident than in one of the poorest and dysfunctional countries in the world—Afghanistan.   During the reign of the Taliban essentially all women working outside the [...]

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