Life has improved after the fall of the Taliban

Aziz Roeesh is the principal of Marefat High School in Kabul

Marefat High School in Kabul provides accelerated courses for

Life has improved after the fall of the Taleban. This is the first time that the people are engaged and participating in political affairs and there are lots of changes.

We can see these changes in education, we can see it in the daily life of the people and even the trust of people in the government.

In our school we have an accelerated learning programme which is especially useful for girls. We have great community support for that scheme and people send their daughters to us even at the ages of 18 and 20 to start from class one and learn their ABC.

We can also upgrade some of these students and some of the girls passed from class one to grade 12 in five years. Others have already graduated from school and are attending university

Last year 62% of our students were girls. They went to university. They were able to gain entrance

That is a great change. Original source BBC