INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The United Nations Children&s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern about the continued closure of secondary and high schools for girls in
Afghanistan, saying &education should not be held hostage to politics.&On Saturday, Paloma Escudero, UNICEF&s Director of Global Support and
Communications, visited a girls primary school in Kabul and said it has been more than a month since girls over the sixth grade in
Afghanistan have been denied the right to education.Escudero said that female students need help more than ever and called on the
international community, especially donors, not to stop helping girls in this country.According to her, the United Nations continues to
assist in continuing the education of Afghan girls and emphasizes that education for girls is one of the priorities of the United Nations
Children&s Fund in Afghanistan.Escudero said the organization pays the salaries of about 200,000 teachers a month in Afghanistan and
provides 35 million textbooks for Afghan girls.&This is the time when girls need us the most
They go to school every day
They told me they wanted to be a doctor, an engineer and a teacher.&Earlier, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that continuing
to close girls& schools would harm the whole of Afghanistan.The US State Department has also said that political and economic progress
cannot be made if half the population of a country is deprived of education.The post UNICEF director visits girls school; says ‘education
must be above politics& first appeared on Ariana News.
