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Peace through education in a war-torn country

How can children become the bright future of their communities?

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Since we have an extreme conservative society in Afghanistan, and are rarely willing to send kids at a young age to school, my personal initiative was to mobilize and interact with several communities and family members to send their children to school.

Flickr/Todd Huffman. Some rights reserved.
Flickr/Todd Huffman. Some rights reserved.

Flickr/Todd Huffman. Some rights reserved.The security problem from one side and cultural barriers from the other hand, along with poverty, prevented us from starting our project at first. But later, our continuous conversation changed the minds of the community leaders and religious scholars to help us. And this way we continued the implementation of project successfully.