Posted on 06/30/2010 8:13:55 AM PDT by SandRat
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The school provides the local children with formal lessons and sports activities while their parents are trading. Members of all three British Services stationed at the base take time out to teach the boys in arts and crafts and maths and English before their formal lessons begin with the Afghan teacher, Mr Abdul Raziq. Every Saturday sees a stream of local traders coming through the main gate of Kandahar Airfield to set up a bazaar selling a wide range of goods to almost 20,000 personnel from the 42 nations serving at the sprawling ISAF base. He hit upon the idea of setting up a school in an area to one side of the stalls where the children could have formal lessons and a little bit of fun. School volunteer Andy Carnegie commented: "The KAF Bazaar School is an opportunity for the military population in KAF to interact with local nationals. "The school is a Saturday morning activity school ... It gives the chance for the soldiers to interact with local nationals and for the boys to interact with the military." Teacher Abdul Raziq said: "We have 45 students who are separated into three crews - the seniors, juniors and the brand new ones. "First of all I teach them Pashtu. It is really important for them to learn Pashtu. "Then they learn the ABC, which they can study through English books, and study the English language. They are doing homework, learning and writing the ABCs." |
Kandahar ping.
Don’t they know we are at war with Muslims! Well at least according to the Nuke Mecca crowd
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