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Aug 23, 2009

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on." --Robert Frost

Tale of a Girls School in Afghanistan

Women in Afghanistan are held to be lesser beings than men; they are accorded fewer rights and fewer opportunities. But build a school for girls, and the girls will come. They will face down death to come. And their illiterate parents will support them. Their illiterate parents will push them out the door. Read about the incredible story of Afghanistan's Mirwais Mena School of 300 girls.