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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