Up to 4,000 people affected with cholera in Afghanistan's Jawzjan province

STORY: Up to 4,000 people affected with cholera in Afghanistan's Jawzjan province DATELINE: July 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:22 LOCATION: SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of a hospital in Jawzjan province STORYLINE: As many as 4,000 people have been affected with cholera in Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan province, a hospital official said Thursday. "1,000 people were affected with cholera in Aqcha district, while 3,000 other were infected with the disease in Shiberghan, the capital city of the province, in less than few weeks," Ghawsuddin Anwari, a senior official for the provincial public hospital, told Xinhua. According to the official, despite the rapid outbreak of the disease, no death has so far been registered in the province, but the cases are remarkably on the rise. Most of the patients are from Aqcha district, where there was a lack of access to clean water. Health officials in the province said an equipped 100-bed hospital has been dedicated for the cholera

AFGHANIST-SHIBERGHAN-GIRL SCHOOL

AFGHANIST-SHIBERGHAN-GIRL SCHOOL

(220227) -- SHIBERGHAN, Feb. 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Feb. 20, 2022 shows a classroom of a school for girls in Aqcha district of Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. An Afghan woman has helped in constructing a school for girls in the country's northern Jawzjan province, which has been welcomed by Afghans as an initiative towards developing education in the country. TO GO WITH "Afghan woman builds girls' school in far-flanged district" (Photo by Qamaruddin Poya/Xinhua)

AFGHANIST-SHIBERGHAN-GIRL SCHOOL

AFGHANIST-SHIBERGHAN-GIRL SCHOOL

(220227) -- SHIBERGHAN, Feb. 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Feb. 20, 2022 shows the construction site of a school for girls in Aqcha district of Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. An Afghan woman has helped in constructing a school for girls in the country's northern Jawzjan province, which has been welcomed by Afghans as an initiative towards developing education in the country. TO GO WITH "Afghan woman builds girls' school in far-flanged district" (Photo by Qamaruddin Poya/Xinhua)

GLOBALink | Afghan woman builds girls' school in far-flung district

STORY: Afghan woman builds girls' school in far-flung district DATELINE: Feb. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: various of the schoolSOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): MOHAMMAD TAHIR JAWAD, Provincial director of Education DepartmentSOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): NAMATULLAH, Local resident STORYLINE: An Afghan woman has helped in constructing a school for girls in the country's northern Jawzjan province, which has been welcomed by Afghans as an initiative towards developing education in the country. In Aqcha, a far-flung district of the Jawzjan province, Hajji Bibi Nazira has built a 12-classroom school on 650 square meters of land at a cost of 65,000 U.S. dollars, largely solving the school shortage for girls in the district. She has become the first woman who built a girls' school from her own wealth since the Taliban took over the power of Afghanistan in mid-August last year. Local officials said local female students, who used to attend classes under tents, now have finally found