Education in isolation
This story explores the difficulties and challenges that Afghans, women, men and children, must face in order to get access to education both from the literacy and vocational training points of view. In some of the most isolated areas of the country social, economical and geographical reasons are also a barrier for education.
The photo essay was shoot between 2011 and 2013 while visiting programs and activities of NGOs and international organizations in several locations throughout Afghanistan.
Nowadays, according the United Nations, two-thirds of Afghan people do not have a proper education while only about 36% of people can read and write. In the provinces, the literacy rates are even lower: 90% of women and 63% of men cannot read and do not have an education. Low levels of literacy and education in general impede the economic development of a country.
Islam says that knowledge and education is a duty and right of all Muslims. The Holy Quran says of knowledge: "Never night and day is same." Night means a person who doesn't have an education, because according to the Islamic scholars night is dark and if we awake in the dark we will live in darkness while, in the daylight, we will see and avoid mistakes.
Education in isolation
This story explores the difficulties and challenges that Afghans, women, men and children, must face in order to get access to education both from the literacy and vocational training points of view. In some of the most isolated areas of the country social, economical and geographical reasons are also a barrier for education.
The photo essay was shoot between 2011 and 2013 while visiting programs and activities of NGOs and international organizations in several locations throughout Afghanistan.
Nowadays, according the United Nations, two-thirds of Afghan people do not have a proper education while only about 36% of people can read and write. In the provinces, the literacy rates are even lower: 90% of women and 63% of men cannot read and do not have an education. Low levels of literacy and education in general impede the economic development of a country.
Islam says that knowledge and education is a duty and right of all Muslims. The Holy Quran says of knowledge: "Never night and day is same." Night means a person who doesn't have an education, because according to the Islamic scholars night is dark and if we awake in the dark we will live in darkness while, in the daylight, we will see and avoid mistakes.
