Last year I interviewed Lara Evans of World Vision about their school feeding program in Afghanistan. This was an initiative funded by the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program to provide school meals in the provinces of Badghis and Ghor.
Evans just provided the latest update. She writes, "We are still implementing the program. It continues to be very successful in getting students, particularly girls, to attend school."
In addition to supporting school meals, the program supports literacy courses for women. Evans adds, "The adult female literacy classes have really taken off, with about 3,500 women now."
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