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Afghan children.... 'street kids'.... Skill.... abject poverty..... hungry..... 13 years old.... typical 'poor' neighborhood...... meager living.... children 'fighting' for work..... no work.... easiest to come to street and 'beg'... university of life.... only bread earners in their families... children.... 7 million dollars go to social projects.... 6 million youths are vulnerable.... work.... day's spent in progress producing activities...
The population of Afghanistan was estimated at 29.2 million in 2017.[131] Of this, 15 million are males and 14.2 million females. About 22% of them are urbanite and the remaining 78% live in rural areas
1 Kabul Kabul Province 3,289,000
2 Kandahar Kandahar Province 491,500
3 Herat Herat Province 436,300
4 Mazar-i-Sharif Balkh Province 368,100
5 Jalalabad Nangarhar Province 306,500
6 Kunduz Kunduz Province 304,600
7 Ghazni Ghazni Province 270,000
8 Taloqan Takhar Province 219,000
9 Puli Khumri Baghlan Province 203,600
10 Khost Khost Province 180,214
Afghanistan's GDP is around $64 billion with an exchange rate of $18.4 billion, and its GDP per capita is $2,000. Despite having $1 trillion or more in mineral deposits,[153] it remains as one of the least developed countries. The country imports over $6 billion worth of goods but exports only $658 million, mainly fruits and nuts. It has less than $1.5 billion in external debt Agricultural production is the backbone of Afghanistan's economy. There are over 100 hospitals in Afghanistan, with the most advanced treatments being available in Kabul. The French Medical Institute for Children and Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul are the leading children's hospitals in the country. Education in Afghanistan includes K–12 and higher education, which is overseen by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education.
There are over 16,000 schools in the country and roughly 9 million students. Of this, about 60% are males and 40% females. Over 174,000 students are enrolled in different universities around the country. About 21% of these are females.[193] Former Education Minister Ghulam Farooq Wardak had stated that construction of 8,000 schools is required for the remaining children who are deprived of formal learning. The literacy rate of the entire population is 38.2% (males 52% and females 24.2%)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
One of the oldest schools in Afghanistan is the Habibia High School in Kabul, which was built by King Habibullah Khan in 1903 to educate students from the nation's elite class. The Kabul University was established in 1932. During the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) reformed the education system; education was stressed for both sexes, and widespread literacy programmes were set up.[5] By 1978, women made up 40 percent of the doctors and 60 percent of the teachers at Kabul University; 440,000 female students were enrolled in educational institutions and 80,000 more in literacy programs.[6] Despite improvements, large percentage of the population remained illiterate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Afghanistan
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (Persian: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان, Hezb-e dimūkrātĩk-e khalq-e Afghānistān, Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند, Da Afghanistān da khalq dimukrātīk gund; abbreviated PDPA) was a political party established on 1 January 1965. While a minority, the party helped former prime minister of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan Afghanistan is an Islamic republic where Islam is practiced by 99% of its citizens. As high as 80% of the population follow Sunni Islam.[2] The remaining are Shias.[3][4] Apart from Muslims, there are also small minorities of Sikhs and Hindus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Afghanistan The literacy rate of the entire population is 38.2% (males 52% and females 24.2%) Being able to talk 'street' lingo but not being able to read The Qur'an while being a Sunni might lead to alot of confusion as to what The Qur'an really says.
http://www.emro.who.int/afg/programmes/mental-health.html This article covers the history of Afghanistan since the communist military coup on 27 April 1978, known as the Saur Revolution, when the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took power. Since that day, an almost continuous series of armed conflicts has dominated and afflicted Afghanistan. The Saur Revolution (/sɔːr/; Persian: إنقلاب ثور or ۷ ثور (literally 7th Saur); Pashto: د ثور انقلاب), also called the April Revolution or April Coup, was a coup d'état (or self-proclaimed revolution) led by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against the rule of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan on 27–28 April 1978. Daoud Khan and most of his family were killed at the presidential palace Saur (pronounced like sour in English) is the Dari (Persian) name of the second month of the Persian calendar, the month in which the uprising took place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saur_Revolution
Afghanistan is a multilingual country in which two languages – Dari and Pashto – are both official and most widely spoken.[1] Dari is the official name of the Persian language in Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Afghanistan
Dari is the term officially recognized and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,[11][9] hence, it is also known as Afghan Persian in many Western sources.[2][12] This has resulted in a naming dispute. Many Persian speakers in Afghanistan prefer and use the name "Farsi" and say the term Dari has been forced on them by the dominant Pashtun ethnic group as an attempt to distance Afghans from their cultural, linguistic, and historical ties to the Persian-speaking world, which includes Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari_language
The Pashtuns (/ˈpʌʃˌtʊnz/, /ˈpɑːʃˌtʊnz/ or /ˈpæʃˌtuːnz/; Pashto: پښتانه Pax̌tānə; singular masculine: پښتون Pax̌tūn, feminine: پښتنه Pax̌tana; also Pukhtuns), historically known as ethnic Afghans (Persian: افغان, Afğān)[15][16][17] and Pathans (Hindustani: پٹھان, पठान, Paṭhān),[18][19] are an Iranic ethnic group[20] who mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtuns
It is an Eastern Iranian language, belonging to the Indo-European family.[16][17][18] Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan,[4][19][20] and it is the second-largest regional language of Pakistan, mainly spoken in the west and northwest of the country.[21] [22]In Pakistan, it is the majority language of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan. Along with Dari Persian, Pashto is the main language among the Pashtun diaspora around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within south-central Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and in the far northeast, China.
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Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan began deteriorating in the 1970s after Pakistan supported rebels such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Ahmad Shah Massoud,[33] Haqqanis, and others against the governments of Afghanistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations