In this issue:
2 HOPE IN ACTION: The long and winding road
7 What Works and Why
10 LOST CHILDHOOD:‘ I want to go to school but we don’ t have any money’
12 Kinds of Child Labor
16 HOPE IN CHANGING LANDSCAPES
18 Taliban and Education
21 Mitigating Factors in Afghanistan
23 In Memoriam
26 Hope at the Ballot Box
28 A DAY IN THE LIFE: GUL BAHAR
36 CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE HEROES
44 WHAT WORKS IN GIRLS’ EDUCATION
47 CAI Connects with European Entrepreneurs
50 PERSISTENT HOPE: Nuristani elders renew plea for school
52 Nuristan Province
54 PENNIES FOR PEACE( aka P4P)
58 Fast Facts | Country Data
60 CAI Personnel, Board of Directors, About the Journalists
Journey of
HOPE
ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE VOLUME VIII | FALL 2014 | IKAT. ORG
In this issue:
2 HOPE IN ACTION: The long and winding road
7 What Works and Why
10 LOST CHILDHOOD:‘ I want to go to school but we don’ t have any money’
12 Kinds of Child Labor
16 HOPE IN CHANGING LANDSCAPES
18 Taliban and Education
21 Mitigating Factors in Afghanistan
23 In Memoriam
26 Hope at the Ballot Box
28 A DAY IN THE LIFE: GUL BAHAR
36 CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE HEROES
44 WHAT WORKS IN GIRLS’ EDUCATION
47 CAI Connects with European Entrepreneurs
50 PERSISTENT HOPE: Nuristani elders renew plea for school
52 Nuristan Province
54 PENNIES FOR PEACE( aka P4P)
58 Fast Facts | Country Data
60 CAI Personnel, Board of Directors, About the Journalists
Above: Three boys in an early childhood development class work with tools that help them learn numbers and letters.
Cover: A young student at the Rahesht Primary School outside of Kabul, Afghanistan listens during a school lesson.
Facing page: A woman prepares to work on a clothing project using a hand-cranked sewing machine at a CAI-supported women ' s vocational center in Ishkashim, Afghanistan.
Inside back cover A little girl wearing the black-and-white clothing required in Tajik schools, reads in front of her class at Kona Kurgan High School, east of Murghab, Tajikistan.
Back cover: Mountains reflected in a backwater of the Panj River in the Wakhan Corridor, northeast Afghanistan.
Photos by Erik Petersen
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