Afghanistan+Children

Education
The Education in Afghanistan is very limited. Boys are more educated than girls although some boys don't even participate in school because of their location or because they have to work to raise money for their families. Until early 2002, only boys attended schools. No girls were allowed to go. Right now 42% of Afghan kids don't attend school. That's almost half the child population who is not educated meaning they will not have a good profession later on in life. Only 27% of all teachers that teach at the schools have the minimum professional qualifications. This means that most of the teachers that are teaching at the schools are not qualified to teach and are probably not giving the kids the education they need to succeed. 11 million children in Afghanistan are illiterate, meaning that they are not able to read or write,toc and only children through the ages of 7-13 attended the schools. Since they both don't have enough schools, qualified teachers, or the age limit is too small, this makes the future of these children not as bright as the children that get a proper education. **< Afghan school. No girls, just boys**

Health
Afghan children do not have the best health as they should. Afghanistan overall has the highest infant mortality rate in the world, meaning that there are many deaths occurring in the first year of a child's life. Most children are lucky just to be alive. There are 257 deaths per every 1000 live births. These children die from diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhea. This country has the worst [|malnourishment], which means that the children are poorly or improperly nourished. The main cause of the children picking up these diseases is that 23% of Afghanistan children do not have access to clean water. This means that most children are drinking the dirty water, which is likely to be carrying the diseases that are killing them. **< Afghan children lining up to be checked by a Afghan doctor**

Effects of the war
The war in Afghanistan is not only effecting the USA or the government of Afghanistan. It also has a big effect on Afghan children. Thousands of children have been killed as result of bombings that have gone on during the war. This is not only killing them but even the ones that survive are pretty much scarred for life. Experiencing the war permanently damages the personality of a child. The children are constantly surrounded by the war going on around them that they witness so many violence actions. These actions are not from the USA who is trying to protect them. The different terrorist groups are doing the violent actions that the children have to witness. Some children were recently asked if they believed that they would die during this conflict and 90% of them said yes they would. That shows the little amount of hope they have to survive throughout this war and how terrified they are from witnessing the effect it has on the people and their country.


 * ^A basic timeline of the war in Afghanistan ^picture of a young boy looking scared during the Afghan war**

Boys VS Girls
The boys and girls in Afghanistan are treated very differently. The boys are considered to be better than the girls, and they are also more rewarded than the girls are. Some people have so many daughters in their family that their family ends up not meaning that much to them later on in life. Families like this sometimes disguised their girls as boys just to pretend that they have a boy in the family. Disguising girls as boys is very common for families in Afghanistan, which is an awful thing to do but a great way of showing how much the girls are frowned upon and not wanted, since the people there feel like girls are weaker and less capable of doing things, so they don't think they are as necessary as boys in society. **< Girl on the far left dresses as a boy for her family** media type="youtube" key="fayeCNpF2ms" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="tVvz3V8C9BU" width="425" height="350"

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