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Building Schools in Afghanistan: Not as Simple as ABC -- Politics Daily - 1 views

  • It's part of an intricate theory of counterinsurgency warfare that involves big money and grinding hard work for a long shot, distant payoff: that kids will grow up in a stable, moderate society not wrenched by extremist violence.That's our exit strategy from the Afghan war.
    • LINA R
       
      This shows that everyone is realizing what a big affect that the war has had on the community of Afghanistan, and how it is affecting the children and thier future of living in Afghanistan.
  • And, according to U.S. strategists, this school and others like it will help keep boys from drifting away to extremist madrassas in Pakistan and falling into the clutches of the Taliban
    • LINA R
       
      In the effort to build schools it is their attempt to make a brighter future for these kids who as of right now have no where to go, they just hang out on the streets which everyone knows leads to trouble.
  • Afghans have been building this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years: rock foundations without mortar. The contractors and workers, some with long white beards, watch Rafaele carefully, waiting perhaps for him to explain this interesting new idea.
    • LINA R
       
      The people in Afghanistan are doing what they have been doing for thousands of years and this is part of the reason that they are trapped in the cycle of war and violence, they have to try new things for the future of schools, but at the same time keep thier culture strong.
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  • "It's hard to get them to change their ways,'' he tells me later. The problem is "their stuff is over-built. We can show them how to build more efficiently, quicker and easier,'' he says.Construction is not the only problem with schools.
    • LINA R
       
      This relate to the point I made before.
  • Once a school is built and filled with kids and teachers, there is a continuing need for paper, pencils, textbooks, desks, chairs -- and no obvious source of supply. As it is, U.S. troops on patrol are routinely asked for school supplies, requests that are often forwarded home to military families and charities in the States to handle.
    • LINA R
       
      That is another big problem, once a school is biult and they do fins students, it brings more problems like supplies and lessons. I know from personal experience that teachers there don't come to school with a set lesson. I f the teacher doesn't show up they students just go back home. Even if they are schools people iN Afghanistan have to put it to good use.
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Ida Strengthens to a Category 2 Storm; Hurricane Watch for U.S. Coast - ABC News - 1 views

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  • Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 2 storm with winds of up to 100 mph. The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for southeastern Louisiana that stretches to the Florida Panhandle. It does not include the city of New Orleans, the hurricane center said. The watch means hurricane conditions are possible in the next 36 hours.
    • ANGIE V
       
      The hurrican ida had hit the Gulf of Mexico and is possible to hit Florida which cant be good.
  • In El Salvador, the Interior Minister Humberto Centeno reported 91 people were dead and another 60 are missing following deadly floods and mudslides.
    • ANGIE V
       
      In El Salvador the hurricane had left may floods and 91 people had been reported dead.
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CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan - 1 views

  • When 1.5 million children went back in school in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, a tough lesson was waiting for them. While the country welcomed some semblance of peace for the first time in years, war remained very much a part of its classrooms. Afghanistan's teachers tried to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      This is very important because it shows that the war that is going is affecting both countries. When we think of the war we think of only who it affects us but it affects our troops and the troops' family but not most of our schooling systems. This should make us think and do somthing to help them,
  • Some children bring their own chairs to school, if they have them. The school was almost destroyed by war.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      this just shows how this war is highly affecting them more then this war has been affecting us.
  • A student learns to add and subtract bullets Math teachers use bullets as props to
    • GIULIANA V
       
      this shows that these kids willl grow up with the idea of war stuck in their back of thier heads this will affect them and their lives in the long run
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  • m has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence. For years, war was the
  • teach lessons in subtraction. This isn't their idea. During decades of war, the classroo
  • only lesson that counted.
  • So, at that time, there was a lot of militaristic thinking."
    • GIULIANA V
       
      this will eventually affect the childrens minds
  • Rashid loves school but he says he and the other boys don't understand why their books are filled with war.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      these kids just want to learn things that other children around the world are learniong without the idea of war in their heads
  • The pleasures of childhood are so simple. A kite to fly, a friend to share your dreams with, maybe a good storybook. In Afghanistan, a child's pleasure is simply an end to 23 years of war.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      its really sad how these kids cannot dream like other kids they have to worry about a huge war.
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    "INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN Back to school in Afghanistan CBC News Online | January 27, 2004 The National | Airdate: May 6, 2002 Reporter: Carol Off | Producer: Heather Abbott | Editor: Catherine McIsaac When 1.5 million children went back in school in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, a tough lesson was waiting for them. While the country welcomed some semblance of peace for the first time in years, war remained very much a part of its classrooms. Afghanistan's teachers tried to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States. Textbooks are full of guns, swords and other images of war At a public school in Kabul, students and teachers are anxious for some kind of normal routine. Some children bring their own chairs to school, if they have them. The school was almost destroyed by war. There's no electricity. It's colder inside than out. The cement floor is freezing. But the students don't mind. The young women and girls at this school are back in the classroom after five years of banishment by the Taliban. Women in their 20s have returned to Grade 11. But they're not bitter, they're happy. Getting children back to school is a number one priority in Afghanistan's post war government. But the big question is: what will they learn? A student learns to add and subtract bullets Math teachers use bullets as props to teach lessons in subtraction. This isn't their idea. During decades of war, the classroom has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence. For years, war was the only lesson that counted. The Mujahideen, Afghanistan's freedom fighters, used the classroom to prepare children to fight the Soviet empire. The Russians are long gone but the textbooks are not. The Mujahideen had wanted to prepare the next generation of Afghans to fight the enemy, so pupils learned the prop
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Schools for Africa Campaign supported by UNICEF Ireland - 1 views

  • Support school construction, provide educational materials, train teachers With your help, “Schools for Africa” will support the construction and reconstruction of schools and the provision of education materials in six African countries, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It will develop training programmes for teachers and strengthen school governance and management. In the six countries, schools will be established mainly in rural areas.
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    Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like? Also, please make "schools" lower case and identify the country that this article is focusing on. Africa is a continent of many countries.
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    i put up a new article that showed what that gave me an image of what the school looks like.
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Green Village Schools in Afghanistan - Home - 0 views

  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives. Currently, the organization is seeking ways to address local security concerns in order to rebuild the school and guarantee future educational aspirations of area children, young people and their families.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives. Currently, the organization is seeking ways to address local security concerns in order to rebuild the school and guarantee future educational aspirations of area children, young people and their families.
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  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives. Currently, the organization is seeking ways to address local security concerns in order to rebuild the school and guarantee future educational aspirations of area children, young people and their families.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives. Currently, the organization is seeking ways to address local security concerns in order to rebuild the school and guarantee future educational aspirations of area children, young people and their families.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives. Currently, the organization is seeking ways to address local security concerns in order to rebuild the school and guarantee future educational aspirations of area children, young people and their families.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives. Currently, the organization is seeking ways to address local security concerns in order to rebuild the school and guarantee future educational aspirations of area children, young people and their families.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      it really sucks that finally these children are getting somesort of education then its destroyed. What kind of education will they end up getting and trying to work with.
  • In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had been nurtured for years by Dr. Kharoti and Green Village Schools was tragically destroyed and looted by militants with uncertain motives.
  • While the devastating impact of the school’s destruction is deeply felt, Green Village Schools has emerged stronger and has developed a broader strategy to foster education and community development in Afghanistan.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      they are the people that are trying to get education to these children.
  • School enrollments for girls in Afghanistan are among the lowest in the world, and in rural areas it is rare for women to read.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      Why women?
  • Although progress was interrupted by the tragic events of September 11th 2001 and the subsequent war.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      this war that has been going on for 8 years is not only affecting us but is also really affecting aall the innocent children in Afghanistan :(.
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    "Our Vision Green Village Schools is a Portland, Oregon, based non-profit organization committed to building a generation of hope in Afghanistan. Our vision is to foster schools in Afghanistan that offer children a basic education and empower young people and their communities to become actively engaged in building a future of hope for their country. Green Village Schools also seeks to build thriving communities through support to school health services for students and local villages. We believe that investing in the education and health of young people in Afghanistan will ensure a future of hope for the country. Current Status In March 2001, Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti, a US-based physician of Afghan origin, began supporting classes for 10 boys and six girls in the Kharoti family compound in the village of Shin Kalay in Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. The following year construction began on a school in the same village and in December 2002 Green Village Schools was officially recognized as a charity in the United States. In the ensuing years the educational complex eventually comprised eight classrooms for boys on one side of the school and eight for girls on the other, providing space for nine grades. A well was dug and an elevated storage tank, separate latrines for boys and girls and a privacy wall around the entire complex were constructed. In addition, the complex contained a library which also served as a community center and a computer lab was under construction. By 2007, with about 800 boys and 400 girls and a teaching staff of 35, the school was licensed by the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan and they provided some financial support for teachers' salaries. Other support came from a diverse range of community and international partners. The Provincial Office of the Minister of Education records that over 2,400 students have attended the school during its short history. In October 2008, the school in Shin Kalay that had
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DominicanRepublicfirstdayofnewschool.jpg (JPEG Image, 350x262 pixels) - 0 views

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Japan Junior High School Visit - 0 views

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    This shows how unsafe this school is.
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Youthink! | Issues | Education | Story: In Afghanistan, Out of Conflict and Into School - 0 views

  • "Parents fear if they let their girls walk to school there's more of a chance that they could be nabbed," Wajdi says.
    • GIULIANA V
       
      Why would it be so bad for women to go to school? do men steal them?
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Dominican Republic - Educational System-overview - 0 views

  • In 1985 the structure of the educational pyramid consisted of three years of noncompulsory preschool education; six years in primary school; and six years in middle school, divided into two years of intermediate education and four years of secondary school, or into four years and two years (Plan de Reforma). Students who continued to that point received their high school degree (bachillerato) and might continue to the tertiary education provided by the Dominican universities, which conferred either licentiates (licenciaturas), ingenerias, or doctorados (doctorates—for law and medicine only), depending on the field of study.
    • CHRISTOPHER S
       
      i think that the way that the education system is , is somewhat stranger to here but it shows that the people there probably don't have enough funding to make it a full and more reliable education system.
  • Of the three years of preschool education, one year became compulsory, as did nine years of basic primary school, effectively extending compulsory schooling by four years. Middle school (to receive the bachillerato degree) has been reduced to only three years and is noncompulsory, as is higher education. Middle school students are separated into academic and technical-professional tracks, receiving high school diplomas that specify their tracks.
    • CHRISTOPHER S
       
      something that this made me think of is the way that the schools over there try to extend the natural flow of school by adding more time to the school's students and seperating them based on academics.
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Building The Village Education Project - 0 views

  • I came away from the experience with a lot more than the standard shock at the poverty and conditions in the developing world. Instead, I was surprised by how little is really needed to change those conditions.
    • JONNATHAN L
       
      This shows how people are trying to help out the country people and giving them more priviledges
  • The children we worked with were up against more than just shabby schools. In Ecuador, as in many developing countries, public education costs money. Between books, matriculation fees, uniforms, and supplies, each child must pay at least 200 dollars a year—an impossible amount for families living on two dollars a day.
    • JONNATHAN L
       
      This shows an average wage that and ecuadorian is being paid an what the have to work up to just to have a education.
  • This year, that number totaled 48 matriculating students. Second, we prepare the students with summer courses in mathematics and English, subjects in which the students are typically lacking. Working in accordance with Ecuadorian standards for secondary education, we train volunteers to teach summer classes in the village schools.
    • JONNATHAN L
       
      This shows how strongly they are preparing to teach the students, and what there goals are to do.
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  • We held an ambitious school supplies drive with St. Gabriel's Elementary School in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the supplies collected, we gave each child a notebook, crayons, markers, erasers, and an English vocabulary book.
    • JONNATHAN L
       
      This is also showing how poeple are contributing to this program. With there help they gave these kids supplies for there school year.
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UNICEF - Tsunami disaster - countries in crisis - A new school means new hope in tsunam... - 0 views

  • Despite their terrible loss, Fawzana and her family seem to have found a measure of comfort and stability in their daily routine. Fawzana’s father helps cut bread for her breakfast while she sleepily brushes her hair and gets her books ready. Then he drives his daughters and their friends to school. The Zahira school has been rebuilt. It now has high, protective walls and an effective electrical system, which the old building lacked. In one new room, rows of computers wait for children to start working the keyboards. Zahira, which serves 500 students, is now equipped with modern, separate toilet facilities for girls and boys. Zahira is one of 35 new schools UNICEF has been helping to build in Sri Lanka following the tsunami. Next door, builders are hard at work on a new secondary school. In Hambantota, as elsewhere, a school has an importance beyond its bricks and mortar. “In the aftermath of the disaster, you have to consider the psychological factor,” says English teacher S.M. Risham. “You know when the students get back to school they have the opportunity of sharing their experience. At the same time they can get a valuable education so that they’ll be able to stand on their own feet.” A new startFawzana and her classmates haven’t forgotten the tsunami. She’s still afraid of the sea at times, especially if it’s rough. But she is also beginning to turn her mind to the future. “I want to be a teacher because I want to follow my mother. I want to see other children studying and I want to help them do that in the future.” Back on the seafront, new fishing boats form a colourful arc, a strong sign that the local fishing industry is being restored. And just as Hambantota’s fishing fleet is a vital economic lifeline, its schools are anchors for the whole community. For Fawzana personally, the revival of the Zahira school represents a new start and new hope.         var emailarticleloc = location.href; emailarticleloc = emailarticleloc.replace("http://www.unicef.org",""); emailarticleloc = emailarticleloc.replace("http://unicef.org",""); var emailarticle = "Email this article Email this article var pageURL = encodeURIComponent("http://www.unicef.org/emerg/disasterinasia/index_36576.html"); var pageTitle = ''; pageTitle = encodeURIComponent("A new school means new hope in tsunami-stricken Hambantota, Sri Lanka").replace(/\'/g,'%27'); var pageBlurb = encodeURIComponent(("HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, December 2006 – The wave of destruction that swept through Hambantota – a town known for its fishing industry on Sri Lanka’s south coast – is still visible two years later.").replace(/\s+/g,' ').replace(/^\s*/,'')).replace(/\'/g,'%27'); var pageImageOriginal = ""; var pageTitleOriginal = "A new school means new hope in tsunami-stricken Hambantota, Sri Lanka"; var pageBlurbOriginal = "HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, December 2006 – The wave of destruction that swept through Hambantota – a town known for its fishing industry on Sri Lanka’s south coast – is still visible two years later."; var pageURLOriginal = "http://www.unicef.org/emerg/disasterinasia/index_36576.html"; function createBlogBox(id) { var s = ".unicef_embed h3 a:hover { text-decoration: unde
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    This teaches me that lots of countries lost schools
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'Massive' lack of education plagues Africa - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source - 0 views

  • n South Africa, as in most of Africa, boys are pressured into dropping out of school to earn money for their families, while pregnancy is the main reason girls leave school. She said South Africa has reached universal primary-school enrolment and has enrolment rates of 90% in secondary schools, and that girls are now in the majority at this level. While it initially appeared that there were more girls in South Africa's school system, studies showed that this was not because boys were dropping out more easily. "Instead, boys are flowing through the system more slowly than girls. Boys are repeating grades more frequently ... are dropping out of school and then coming back," Pandor said.
    • MARC J
       
      It's sad to see that most younger kids in this country have to stop going to school for money to support thier family, thier lack of education won't help them later in thier lives
    • FAZLA R
       
      I agree with you and I also feel that everyone deserves a good education, including poor children.
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Project to Build Schools for Central North Brazil - 0 views

    • KATELYNNE C
       
      This shows how there is a lack of education in Brazil.
  • The region of the Central North of Brazil is a region where there is lack of everything. Children do not go to school because there is no school. Having a job is a difficult task and then children start looking for a job to help the family necessities. Without jobs, children get involved with crimes and drugs, as an alternative to help their families. However, they do not just sell drugs to people who have money, but become users themselves. As a result, they quickly lose any funds they have and then turn to crime.
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India Together: In TN, poor parents pushing children into English schools - 26 October ... - 0 views

  • he leaves for school at 8.00 am with the parents traveling to Chengam district in Thiruvannamalai, an hour's journey from home.
    • AMISA K
       
      what a tough time for poor kids. they have to travel long distances.
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259 damaged schools in CAR need rehab - Yahoo! Philippines News - 0 views

  • over 1,000 pupils and students are now suffering from overcrowding in various schools in the different parts of the region because of the lack of classrooms following the destruction of 259 school buildings following the onslaught of typhoon "Pepeng."
    • ISABELLA H
       
      I understand now what the schools are like because of the tyhoon. Also, I can see how much they need a new school due to overcrowding.
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ReliefWeb » Document » Philippines: Lapus acknowledges private sector for hel... - 0 views

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    • NICOLA V
       
      means "collaboration"
  • National Bookstore Foundation is currently repacking school supplies that will be distributed among public schoolchildren, while the National Power Corporation (Napocor) pledged to donate materials and contribute manpower to help clean affected public schools. Amway Philippines will donate cleansers and disinfectants, while public schoolchildren in some affected areas can expect school supplies from the Alfonso Yuchengco Foundation, Jollibee Foundation and UnionBank have also expressed their desire to help affected public schools, and many individuals have donated used books and cash for the victims of the typhoons.
    • NICOLA V
       
      Several organizations have helped schools (In Ondoy, Bagiuao, etc) already by donating books, money and other necessities. This can show how so many schools are without books, food and even the building itself. *Typhoon Parma and Typhoon Pepeng.
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