RASC News Agency: Care International says that the number of school-age girls in Afghanistan who are now missing education reaches 80 percent or 2.5 million.
In a report that it published recently, this organization said that Afghanistan is the only country in the world where the education of girls and women is prohibited. This institute has estimated the economic loss of banning the education of girls and young women to be 5.4 billion dollars for Afghanistan.
It is stated in the report that at the same time as the Taliban group regained control in August 2021, many schools in Afghanistan were closed, and in the following months, schools for boys were gradually reopened, but despite the fact that there was a plan to start education for girls and women, but practically it did not happen.
The Care International organization said: “In September 2021, the ruling authorities of the Taliban suspended all formal educational centers and schools for girls over the age of 12, and because of this, one million and 100,000 girls and young women were deprived of formal education.”
According to this institution, children’s lack of access to education in Afghanistan has always been considered as a big threat. Conflicts, displacement and natural events have spread hunger in this country; which has made the situation even more difficult for girls than others, therefore nearly 30% of girls have never been enrolled in primary schools.
The report of the Care International institution pointed out the importance of rural schools in providing education to girls who have never gone to school and said that many of these girls have been provided with the opportunity to learn to read and write in rural schools.
This institution has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996, and currently it is promoting cash and non-cash assistance programs for the social and economic empowerment of women, health, livelihood and support for families in need.
The Care organization says that in the current year, it has helped 1.15 million needy people in Afghanistan, including 785 thousand women and girls.
This is despite the fact that according to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, four million female students are registered in schools, of which 2.7 million go to school from the first to the sixth grade and 1.7 million are from the seventh to the twelfth grade, which deprived of going school.
