A village in Jaghori, an oasis in an arid mountainous area
Location: Jaghori, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
Ghazni Province is located in an arid mountainous area that is called Hazarajad. Most people are Hazara. Bamiyan is also located in Hazarajad.
Hazara is an Asian ethnic group belonging to Mongoloid. People say that they are posterity of Chinggis Khan, but it is not studied fully.
Among a lot of ethnic groups living in Afghanistan, Hazara is very much close to Japanese.
A village in Jaghori, an oasis in an arid mountainous area
A school teaching
Girls who are studying hard
Teachers and boys (at a schoolyard)
Teaching is finished!
(Teaching is carried in two shifts of morning and afternoon)
Brief history of schools
From 1982 to 1990, a German NGO, FKA (Friendship Afghanistan) had given the financial support to four schools in Jaghori (total pupils: 2,000 and teachers: 80), so that they had been administrated and managed without a hitch.
Their curriculum is the same as before, but the record and the discipline are much better than before. The administration is working properly. The schools are independent of all Pakistan- and Iran-based parties.
Since the beginning they were being organized and administrated by Mr. Mohammed Ashraf. In 1991 and 1992, however, the support by FKA was decreased gradually. Finally, it had been stopped completely in 1993.
Then, Mr. Ashraf and others requested all the interested persons living in the country and abroad to support them.