Saturday, August 04, 2012

Acid attacks, poison: What Afghan girls risk by going to school

"People are crazy," said Razia Jan, founder of a girls' school outside Kabul. "The day we opened the school, (on) the other side of town, they threw hand grenades in a girls' school, and 100 girls were killed.
 
"Every day, you hear that somebody's thrown acid at a girl's face ... or they poison their water."
 
There were at least 185 documented attacks on schools and hospitals in Afghanistan last year, according to the United Nations. The majority were attributed to armed groups opposed to girls' education.


MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/meast/cnnheroes-jan-afghan-school/index.html?hpt=ias_t4