February 2002 - Nr. 2
Federal Republic Helps Facilitate Back-to-School Day for More than 10,000 Girls in Kabul
TWIG - After being banned from school for five years, more than 10,000 girls in the Afghan capital went back to school on Tuesday (January 15) with the help of a winter school program supported by the German Embassy in Kabul. Tuesday was also back-to-school day for more than 400 women who have signed up to teach in the schools supported by the program. Boys will receive classroom instruction beginning on March 15, attending school in the afternoons while girls attend in the morning. Lessons will be given in heated classrooms and students will be equipped with notebooks and pens. The winter school program will run for three months in 15 schools in Kabul that have been renovated and outfitted with €518,000 (US$467,000) in aid from the German Foreign Office and in cooperation with the Afghan Education Ministry and KABURA, a local non-governmental organization. Local craftsmen were employed to repair the buildings.
