Group task:Afghans Women

• Under the rule of Taliban, Afghan women could not work,go to school, leave their homes without being accompained by a male relative and had to keep themselves entirely covered
• by now the most important concerns are: revitalizing education, providing livelihood skills, improving health care
• 34% of 4 million Afghan children enrolled in school are girls
• 9% of them continue to secundary school
• these low rates are due to Islamic conservatorism and issues of affordability such as buying uniforms,books or paying school fees
• reopening primary schools is one of the goals of the Afghan Girls Fund(AGF)created by the National Geographic Society in partnership with the Asia Foundation
• another priority is to provide women livelihood skills, this problem is exacerbated by the fact that most Afghan women are widows and frequently the sole providers for their family
• Emergency has created for these women a social project aiming at giving them economic indipendence within their own communities
• most important is providing access to reproductive health care and training in nutrition, family planning and sanitation
• nearly 90% of births are unattended by any kind of health care workers and maternal mortality rate is the 2nd highest in the world
• 25% of children die before their 5th birthday and 50% of children under 5 years old present chronic malnutrition