operates twenty-one literacy centers for women in Afghanistan: Bringing the gift of basic literacy to an entire society.  In one school we have three generations of Hazara women attending classes, grandmother, daughter and grand-daughter.

A village male elder said of the schools:
There is a difference between blind and healthy.  The one who is
illiterate is like blind, so we very like to have this school.
Tribal Elder

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"I am a woman. I am not too old but I have seen many difficulties...All the members of the family work.  I cut the grass for cows, cook meals, wash clothes, and prepare school supplies for my brothers and 100s of jobs like this...My life is completely repeated over everyday till this moment.

The day which I hear in my village has started literacy center . . . is the best day of my life.  I hurried and told my name to the teacher and take a book and look at the pictures of the book from the first till the end.  I requested from God to help me to read the letters of the book."

Speech by 18 year old,  Ghazni Province