will travel to turkey next week to head an independent inquiry into the metro saudi journalist. she will report her findings to the un human rights council. israel says it has plans to reprimand the irish setter it's in response to the irish parliament advancing legislation which if passed aims to criminalize any business that deals with illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the law is a disgrace and the u.s. senate has again failed to end the partial government shutdown now in his thirty fifth day the republican and democratic parties try to pass competing bills but neither had enough votes president trump is refusing to fund government departments until he gets billions of dollars for his mexico border wall those are the headlines on al-jazeera one on one east is next.

and three. in war torn afghanistan. simply going to school can be a privilege. especially if you're a girl. and. two out of three girls don't attend school this is by billions of dollars in aid spent on education over the last two decades . i'm steve on this episode of what i want to use to reinvestigate why so many of afghanistan's girls are kept outside of the classroom.

into the dawn of a new school day across afghanistan and girls from the dash district or neighborhood in west kabul begin making their way to class. perced a trickle. and soon a steady stream. by six am the outpouring from the gates. there steve from norwich ready to learn. it's six am seems early for school and it is and. that's because this is the first of three ships here. it's the only way to accommodate the more than fourteen thousand students on the screen wolfed split almost evenly between schools and. over the next week we've been given extremely rare access inside the cia the

shahadah school to try to understand what life is like for a girl for him to school in afghanistan. the combination is so hard for us in our country. our war problems just. sixteen year old math. has been a student at seattle shahada since grade one over that time she and principal akila tasha cooley have seen the numbers of girls at your school more than ok melissa yes and so are strolls and though we have. a few buildings here and there. was a student here they guess seven thousand just was just here so i wonder how long. the huge increase in the numbers of feel studying it. is

a welcome sign of progress compared to the days when the taliban were in power and girls were forbidden from going to school. but the school's enormous growth has a major consequence too many students and not enough classrooms so we have a few buildings here yeah which ones are for girls one is simple this. time of movement is saying that that building is from the beis building room for the from the five buildings from the by the we are seeing the buildings are all the by all the building all of the boys are the mice yes. one of the girls that's there is full of the yes. we don't have a classroom because we don't have buildings and that's just for our parents and all

of them is the buildings are on the bias if we don't have any room. how many classes into tiles we are more than four feet what it cost us to come in times a day free time when they. really get is ok just go hard to be on the bus to lug with you on. you're. getting. sometimes. there is only one high school in this neighborhood which is why the girls come from far away from all the population is growing and day by day the girls come knocking on our door to be enrolled we cannot tell them no joint. and we have to accept them but we don't have enough space that's why we have problems. the. lack of

infrastructure is only one of many reasons why so many afghan girls are out of school. in fact no one actually knows how many girls are in school not even the afghan government the ministry of education is not sure how many students are there is it eleven million or is it seven point two million is it eight million nobody knows exactly how many students are there. that's just one of several findings of a recent independent review on corruption within the ministry of education released late last year the results made headlines across the country it found widespread corruption throughout the education system ministry. of bashar is the former director of afghanistan's anti corruption watchdog and author of the report after spending billions and billions of dollars in the last sixteen years. we have not

been able actually to have any kind of building for most of the schools our finding shows that. the treaty money was taken in cash to remote parts of afghanistan by the trustees and we had information that the money did not make the right people. had siad all shahada there aren't even enough classrooms for the boys. many classes are held in the hallways or in stairwells wherever a teacher came from space. the only place you won't find boys attending classes is in a tent or out in the open with the girls in the past living area where together by some girls we didn't go first to a lack of that class is ok we had enough classes here but right now we have too much people we have too much a student here because of this there is no play is. recognizing the desperate need

at the school japanese donors built to need buildings five years ago so girls would have their own classrooms. at the school shura the community leaders decided to give those buildings to the people. in this school is the blanks to ask the girls because when for an answer coming we were under the sun we were under the rain bad therefore and i was next one did the school's frazz but right now is this by says i don't know why you feel angry about. the angry yes because in the past. where when they are coming so they will think about us as about about the gears but right now it's the my school i don't know why and it's right makes me really angry that's why i always the right of the girls are like. improving education especially for

girls is a well known objective for international donors principal akila says the local community gave the buildings to the boys thinking. that donors would come back to build more classrooms for the girls. what if. people think n.g.o.s come here to work only for girls so the community decided the buildings should be for the boys. i don't know if the school's management or others interview these issues are always decided by the males and the school management. did the donors ever come back after they built the building her own mother they came once to visit then went back to. the security situation continues to deteriorate in afghanistan as a result there we feel international donors are able to visit the projects they

support so many rely on third party monitors to do that work which according to the anti corruption committee opens yet another avenue for corruption problem that the school monitors and instead of doing proper monitoring off the quality of education . they have been working for themselves you know to go to some of the school to kind of harass the teachers in this great inspiration get money from them and then to their evaluation once they were happy we had an example. a school that we were working with him on which has a thousand kids on the register actually when we went in there there were twelve kids going to school. even kaplan is a researcher who contributed to the anticorruption report as an education specialist he works with the norwegian and geo providing support for schools throughout afghanistan including this school for the deaf and kabul. language which

. kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and. supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes there's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think i mean you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk and you see people and you see them engaging in learning it and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling for the call to go but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls lacking so much more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there has been just much more of a focus on just getting anyone in the school first and then it was easier to get boys into school and. you know and also just because of gender you know that

the more attention has been focused on boys than girls generally see india is a country that's true are leaving all this like saying that they are not. always saying that. as the top levels of the afghan government and the international community deal with the findings of the anti corruption report the staff and the girls that say it will shahada face more immediate issues. the first shift of the school day from six am to ten am is almost over and while four hours might seem a little light on school times it may be a blessing in disguise because any longer on the girls may have to toy with. the trash talk in the room we have seven thousand go with both male and female

students have to use the same time on such was a problem. we tell them during the summer lease do it before coming to school. have you ever gone to the toilet. school yes i was seven years old that i went to call and. it's a will but situation here. the biggest kind of war during one. of the buying of so. was. impulse. poor working conditions in most schools make it more difficult to attract female teachers yet they're desperately needed because many families still will not accept men teaching their daughters. we have only fifty four full time teachers including principal and edwin starr so this is the

problem when we don't have enough teachers and we have to take temporary staff but because our school is far away many female teachers can't. far away is simply the outskirts of western kabul. but it's too far for female teachers unfamiliar with the neighborhood or uncertain about its security. it's a paradox principal akila cannot recruit enough women to teach at her school yet it's estimated that up to seventy five percent of teaching graduates are unemployed and most of them are women. at the saeed jumma luden teaching college in a more affluent district of couple afghanistan's next generation of teachers is learning the best techniques to connect with their future students. every one of these graduates knows a good education is not always enough to land

a teaching job. that i studied inside john lydon school and he graduated from class fourteen. i made it in dari and king second in the class. then i tried looking for a good job. graduated three years ago from this college but she is still looking for work as. we try our best to get jobs in the middle way but we cannot get anything. but there is another way which is illegal but i have never tried it. i try my best to do things. but it hasn't worked yet. of all the findings in the corruption report the issue highlighted as most devastating was the poor quality of teachers throughout the country. jobs were given to those who could afford to pay

a bribe not those who are best qualified it's hard to slap a percentage on this stuff but the majority of teachers that we spoke with suggested that teachers coming in recent years have to pay a year's salary in advance to be able to even get a teaching position. what about your classmates who you graduated with do any of them have jobs are they in the same position as you are. as far as i know none of them had secured a future either. the problem is that we have to have qualified teachers like you it's not about the number of the teacher it's about the quality of the teacher. we came across instances where you know. a religious school graduate was teaching you know physics in math to the students he didn't know and i think and something about that subject i think what's happening now more and more sick kids are you know leaving school because their experience is just so miserable and they're not learning it just isn't prepared just prefer children for work or for life. and so

what's the point. it's truly afternoon and the students and staff of star you don't have another major problem to deal with this is the courtyard of the star you know how the school where most of the girls take the passes but this afternoon behind me there is a massive storm brewing and if the rain gets any heavier school is over for the day . do you think it's fair that boys always have classrooms and girls have to say. it's a problem then because general of the well known times within the world there are thousands of the boys they have right but the girls. they don't have they have class by the girls don't have classes for example my my brothers are not doing their boy they have class my sister i thing more than five years their

student outside in front of this. and they are there rain and they do those days that there was a van so they will not they will not teach you one they will like the study something. it will come back. it's harder to learn yeah you're outside worse so they can not do little knowledge under the rain the rain will come. as the sky gets darker and knowing some of the girls have up to an hour's walk to get home. you know weeks no longer. after just an hour and a half of lessons the girls are sent on their way to. afghanistan has never had so many students going to school even when the security in some parts of afghanistan we still have the the quantity actually we have.

between seven to eight million students going to school as i said we don't know the exact number but i think that's a significant number but i think the quality of education what is more important we don't have that we have fairly poor quality education and that goes back to many things you know. is one of the major causes of having poor quality education. and you have to convince your dad to let you go to school or worse my father was also. he was not ok about going to school before he was saying something not that you would want a boy school like his no just say that school is not. for example the ghost working in the home. cleaning washing

listings and now he is a play i was thing for him. it's the world has changed and we should love knowledge of good. man was his father dad runs a small store around the corner from the family home. he and his wife have six children that is the oldest. this business is the sole source of income that has to provide for his family doesn't hold lucrative i have never been to school or to get emotionally i can't even understand the simple. afghan tradition dictates the eldest daughter should stay home to take care of the family. does that. mean and looks after her siblings before and

after school but she's also impressed her family with how hard she studies. rusin for her. he's very intelligent he's now in grade eleven. the last few years he was number one school and now she's number two. did you include richard. rather with us ricky yes it was with our encouragement of a mother and father and she is now in grade eleven and number two in school. do you worry about your daughters when they walk to school have been the mage on yes i worry because the security has not been good for the last few years fairly this year the security is much worse and that's why we worry we're going to talk even today there was a bomb blast. that blast was just two kilometers away targeting a voter registration center sixty people were killed. but it did not stop madness

from going to school a few hours later. to seeing your girls attend the last shift of the day from one to five pm. the community won't allow teenage boys and girls to mix so no boys are present during the afternoon shift. it's one of the few times the girls can use the buildings that were actually built for them always i don't think to myself and i know. this is written is not good you have to change this. just start changing the first your family were unable. to that you can be a successful to serve or always i'm saying for myself i can i can you think i can do they can believe. this thing.

well manaus looks with hope to all that is possible principal akila continues to deal with the seemingly impossible so if it's just a job. even after the boys have left school for the day they're still not enough classrooms for all the girls and at times not enough teachers are not yeah i was. more of what i'm isha i would. write about it but. i just was. all you got to be. on me just ask one of the hotter laughs. for those working every day in afghanistan schools the strain is evident in the future uncertain. the responsibility of being a principal is too much to ask a lot of. they don't have copied and i don't think they can get them

if i were just a teacher it would be better. whether the reforms recommended in the anticorruption report will help principal akila remains unclear but the fact that the report was commissioned and released at all may be seen as a sign of progress. we did have resistance from some from the ministry resisted. graft on other work in the last few years and the court does not reflect as good we have to. be clearly senator that this report is not about. reaction to the report was swift with president ghani himself promising to implement the recommendations but any improvements that result may be too late for man. she's hoping to be at university after she finishes high school next year after that i

would get a job after that i have. a world of politics and i will supply eastern for the keris it's. not like it with me when i was little other agree what this is a. thing that for again this being a boxer. it's good for the. i want to supply for they care so. it's estimated that more than sixty percent of afghanistan's girls are not in school so manaus is dream to provide a better future for them. but given the challenges that she and many of her classmates have faced just to go to school anything seems possible you

never feel like it's. sometimes sometimes that's hard but again when i think something when i. again thing that is a war that about the world and thinking again i for myself. for now decisions about girls' education still lie mainly with men who run the ministry and fathers who rule the home that may slowly evolving. manaus has convinced her father to let her go to university. where once he questioned whether she should study at all the debate now is whether she studies medicine or politics . but girls like manaus and her peers will have to keep fighting to change the future for themselves and for the next generation stands girls when are you happiest. when my father says. when for example my father say that

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