Over 90 percent of samangan girls are out of school – Afghanistan

Over 90 percent of Samangan girls are out of school, this means that of all 10 girls, nine do not go to school in northern Samangan province due to insecurity, none-availability of textbooks and the absence of separate classrooms.

Overall 78 percent of girls in the province are out of school.

"If I enroll my daughter in the school, she will not learn anything," he believed, saying teachers came and gathered students only when education officials inspected the school.

39, hailing from of Mosam area, said there was no issue in his area and he had admitted his two daughters to school.

"We live in a mountainous area and sometimes the Taliban visit our area." Because of Taliban's threat, I did not enroll my girls at school. " But Baba Basir, 61, belonging to the Kokjar village of the same district, has enrolled his two daughters at school.

"I enrolled my daughters in school because education is light. An uneducated person is blind." If a woman is educated, she can also educate her children in a better way, "he remarked.

Abdul Hakim, resident of the Qarda village of Roi Duaab district, said people of his village did not send their daughters to school because of the bad security situation.

Another reason for people preventing their daughters from going to school is the shame factor, he said.

The provincial council, Khatol Sherzai, said low-quality education, insecurity, patriarchy social taboos, were the main challenges for girls going to school.

Hayatullah Barmak, an educist, asked the government to make mandatory education for men and women, especially children, and set up schools in remote areas.

Education Director Abdul Matin Sarwari said a total of 47,000 girls were attending schools across the province.

It rejected the CSO statistics, saying 40 percent of girls could not attend schools due to negative traditions, insecurity, distance and economic problems.

He confirmed the poor quality of education at some schools of the province, acknowledging that around 20 percent of students did not attend schools as they looked after agriculture.

About mixed classes, he said the system was in vogue in some schools at the primary level in some areas due to the low number of students.

The economic demography survey of CSO has not been conducted in all provinces of the country, Statistics from some provinces show more than 66 percent of girls aged between seven and 24 in Heart, more than 74 percent in Balkh, 70 percent in Kabul and 84 percent in Takhar are out of school.