Presenting the subject for Afghanistan’s portrait

Pashtana Durrani

Pashtana runs a youth led program providing educational and health support to girls in rural communities in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Part of the program includes installing solar panels, sourcing electronic tablets and training teachers in the delivery of cheap sustainable, day long education

Pashtana has been passionate about making real changes to help sustainably educate the 2.2 million girls in Afghanistan who currently receive suboptimal education.

Training teachers to deliver digital education, loading tablets with education resources and installing tablets driven by solar power in community schools has been at the heart of the program for Learn Afghanistan, an organisation founded and led by Pashtana.

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Geography

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast. Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. Its population is around 32 million

Source Wikipedia

Environmental Issues

Decades of conflict and violence, coupled with drought and earthquakes, have had devastating impacts not only on the people of Afghanistan, but also on its natural environment, once pristine and rich in biological diversity.

Source UN Environment Programme

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