. >> razia often leaves her children tes kresh when she comes to her lessons.hese women like her were first taught to read and right before being taught a skill and given $100 to start a small business. they come regularly to improve their skills and pay their money back with the cash they earn. >> before, these women had no skills and some of their husbands refused to let them learn with work in the community to help them sell products. they are more indent now and they don't need to ask for money from their husbands. >> although razia's story offers a glimmer of hope with respect to improving women's rights in afghanistan, there are many who are afraid progress made could be lost. i am here to meet one woman who is determined not to let that happen. 1 of 69 women members of afghan's parlorpal, she says despite progress like a law to help protect women from violence, the government must do more through funding and education. >> the huge amount of money goes to security toward girls' education. the 60% of our national budget goes to the execute issues. womans'

razia has little choice but to be the sole bread winner for her family.er daily struggle using the skills she has learned represents a fragile beginning of sxwejs for millions of women in afghanistan. charles stratford, al jazeera, kabul. >> rescuers are struggling to find more than 100 people missing. 12 people are dead. local police and soldiers are hoping to find survivors. lack of proper equipment is h p hampering that search. more now from jakarta. >> it all happened within five minutes. a huge chunk of a mountain came down and burst into a hamlet burying all but two houses. most villagers were taken by surprise. the landslide happened after two days of non-stop torrential rains. >> people here didn't see it coming. there were a lot of people thought landslide would not happen in the village. i was lucky i didn't have to run. >> nearly 700 rescue workers and volunteers are trying to find survivors, a task hampered by the bad weather and unstable ground. in most areas the use of heavy equipment is concerned too dangerous. more than 300 people have bee