Chances with wolves

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Many Afghan parents find it cheaper and safer to send their children across the border to Pakistan to be educated in religious schools, known as madrassas. Now the United States has started building its own madrassas in Afghanistan in the hope of keeping a new generation out of the clutches of hardline Islamist preachers. Gethin Chamberlain reports on the challenges facing the Afghan education system and travels to a village where going to school means braving marauding wolves on a two hour walk through a minefield.

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Uploaded: May 13th, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Author: gethinchamberlain

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