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Thu Jan 12, 2012, 01:58 PM Jan 2012

Japan to help Afghanistan build 70 more schools

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120112_37.html

updated at 13:27 UTC, Jan. 12

Japan is to provide 25 million dollars to Afghanistan to build 70 schools in Bamiyan and 2 other developing provinces to help reconstruct the war-torn country. snip

Japan has helped Afghanistan build about 700 schools in Kabul and other regions. The number of children in school has increased 8-fold over the past 10 years.

Thursday, January 12, 2012 20:32 +0900 (JST)

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