Fighting Violence…One Book at a Time
November 11, 2008 – 9:11 amBBC feature on the importance of literacy in the midst of Taliban propaganda:
Khalai Kohna High School in Lashkar Gah, the main town in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, is hailed as a success story.
It’s dusty and lacks power and drinking water and the children share books.
But it is open, giving several hours of education a day to more than 1,000 boys and, in the afternoons, more than 600 girls.
It is a rarity. The vast majority of children in Helmand cannot go to school.
Khalai Kohna managed to open earlier this year because Lashkar Gah is a bubble of relative security, even though it’s surrounded by the Taleban.
One of the school’s science teachers, Abdul Raziq, says the fight against the Taleban must also take place in the classroom.
Entire article.
This ought to resonate with believers, as Christian missions has pushed literacy among the nations long before government and non-government organizations took up the cause. We realize that the Word of God is powerful enough to draw a person to repentance and regenerate their heart (c.f. Rom. 1:16-17)
