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