Afghanistan Reconstruction - School Book Printing
Kabul, Afghanistan
March 23, 2002
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| USAID plane being unloaded of school supplies |
Binding. |
Book Press |
Close up of Book Box |
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| Extreme Close-Up of Books and Box |
Young girl receiving Book Bag |
Hand Written calligraphy |
Press rolling; books coming off press |
Unloading Plane
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"The US government is doing a lot of things here, but I think probably one of the most significant things is the support of the "Back to School" program by providing textbooks. Because of the level of destruction after 20 years of warfare here in Afghanistan, there is simply not the printing, publishing capacity to do it in Afghanistan. So in neighboring Pakistan we and the US government worked with the University of Nebraska in Omaha, which has been through their Afghan center been doing work in Afghanistan for many years. Together we created a giant logistics system that got these books into children’s hands."
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