Park for women inaugurated in Ghazni, and school buildings inaugurated in Helmand and Baghlan provinces

New Women's Park In Ghazni Province

Musa Khan Akbarzada (Governor of Ghazni province), Dr. Husn Banu Ghazanfar (Minister of Women’s Affairs), and other Afghan and foreign officials recently attended a ribbon-cutton ceremony to officially open a new women’s park in the province of Ghazni, said a NATO news release today. The park has a shopping center, garden fountain, benches and large grassy areas. Funding for the project was provided by the Polish government.В  “Women finally got their own space where they can spend time reading or playing with children, but most of all where they can have their own small businesses,” said Shukria Wali, chief of the Department for Women’s Affairs to local journalists.

An official from Afghanistan’s Minstry of Education said today that a school building for the Qarah Ahmad Primary School in the Dushi district of Baghlan province was inaugurated. The school building took one year to build and it has 9 classrooms, 4 administrative rooms and 10 restrooms.В  It also has a surrounding wall and a well.В  Tables and chairs were also provided to the students.

The same official said that two new school buildings were inaugurated in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.В  One is for the Lashgar Bazar Boys Primary School and the other for the Lashgar Bazar Girls Primary School.В  One building has 8 classrooms, 4 administrative rooms and 10 restrooms, and the other building has 4 classrooms, 2 administrative rooms and 5 restrooms. Funding for both projects were provided by the goverment of Denmark.

January 3, 2011 В· admin В· No Comments
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