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AFGHANISTAN: Large families encouraged by culture as well as religion

Kabul based mother Sadia & her youngest children

Aunohita Mojumdar - WNN MDG Stories (WNN/PLIV) KABUL, Afghanistan: Sadia from Fazelbeg in the Qarabagh district, a semi-rural suburb of Kabul, is 37 and has 10 children.  Like most Afghan women she has little say in the decision-making of the size of her family, or her own reproductive health. She has almost no concept that the [...]

Global literacy linked to rise in regional economies

United Nations sponsored literacy class in Afghanistan

WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GDN) Oxford, ENGLAND, U.K.: At the first-ever World Literacy Summit in Oxford this week, delegates are chewing over a number of proposals for how to get global literacy the attention it, quite rightly, deserves. Estimates suggest around 800 million people worldwide are unable to read or write, and yet funding for literacy [...]

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