Sporting Life
Sport figures highly in the life of Khorasan's children and there have been some spectacular achievements. Three of the children qualified to participate in the International Youth Sports Games in Lucknow, India from 29th October to 3rd November. Congratulations to Haroon and Raihona for winning silver medals when they came second in their divisions in competition with several hundred participants from four countries. The same week, the children participated in a three nation tournament in New Delhi and Freshta achieved GOLD! A fantastic achievement whilst Haroon and Raihona repeated their success by being presented with more silver medals.
Educational Achievements
Since 2002 after the fall of the Taleban, the Back to School campaign re-opened schools and 1.5 million children were back at school by the end of March that year. By September, 3 million children had returned to school and about 30% of these were girls. Despite this achievement however, there is much to be done and the educational system is in an embryonic stage. Children often have to go to school in 'shifts' as the staff and schools are still in short supply.
Despite these difficulties, Khorasan's children are making great progress, having extra lessons at home to make up for lack of school time. Freshta and Lina came first in their class at mid-term and are revising hard for their end of term exams. Lina is hoping to pass grade four and will study for grade five during the winter break. This is impressive for any student but is particularly outstanding in this case because one and a half years ago Lina could not read and write.