http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/world/asia/20clinton.html?scp=2&sq=afghanistan+girls&st=nyt http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/world/asia/24kabul.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=afghanistan+children&st=nyt http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29kristof.html?scp=1&sq=afghanistan%20schools%20%20taliban&st=cse
Secretary Clinton said the following: "When Mr. Karzai first took office in 2002, there were one million students in Afghanistan, virtually all boys. Today, there are seven million, 40 percent of them girls. She said Mr. Karzai deserved some credit for that, as well as for other advances during his tenure." I have no desire to debate the US political situation, or Mr. Karzai, but I hadn't seen this very interesting statistic before, and was wondering if anyone else had? I saw elsewhere that over 44% of Afghanistan's population is 14 and under. second link worth a read, poor parents scraping by to send their children to school... "the one thing the state provides" third link is N. Kristof's recent column about Afghanistan schools thanks Sean _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep