Education is the most integral part of a child’s life. Not being able to receive any is a grave misfortune. The children of Afghanistan are going through the same misfortune as they have been out of school. Nearly half all children in Afghanistan are out of school due to conflict, poverty, child marriage and discrimination against girls, the number rising for the first time since 2002, humanitarian organisations said in a report on Sunday.
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Spreading violence has forced many schools to close, undermining fragile gains in education for girls in a country where millions have never set foot in a class room.Some 3.7 million children between the ages of seven and 17, or 44 percent of all children, are out of school, 2.7 million of them girls, Education Minister Mirwais Balkhi told a seminar, explaining a study conducted by UNICEF, USAID and the independent Samuel Hall think-tank, reported Reuters.Click Here: geelong cats guernsey 2019