May 19, 2004
Afghan girls doing maths
Joanne Jacobs, who is indifferent to pictorial content on account of having sufficient content of her own, links to this picture, which unlike her I here reproduce:

Here's how the accompanying Christian Science Monitor story starts:
A second-grade math class in Kabul, Afghanistan, met in the school breezeway with a blackboard on wheels. The young scholar was shy about speaking in front of her class. A proud teacher watched. A classmate reached out her hand to offer support.This scene, so natural, so universal, was nonexistent in Afghanistan for many years when the Taliban were in power. Laws prohibited women and girls from attending school or even leaving their homes.
A breezeway sounds like something out of doors.
Comments
Beautiful.
(And a breezeway is a walkway between two parts of a building, usually with no windows -- or vast, open windows -- or walls.)
Comment by: Jackie D on May 25, 2004 01:22 AM
you should check out www.voiceforislam.com
Comment by: steve on February 15, 2005 07:56 AM
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