You probably know that education for women is questioned in most middle eastern countries. After a chain of recent attacks on hospitals and schools many children have been staying away from school, however a group of Afghan girls have been going to school any way and risking their lives.
The most dangerous part for them is the walk to school because many girls have been direct targets of acid attacks, poisonings, and precision bombings. Even though all of these things have been happening the number of children attending school since 2002 has gone from less than a million to 8.2 million. The there are groups dedicated completely to preventing women from going to get an education at any means necessary.
This video is graphic and do not recommend showing it in class but it's your call.
http://cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/01/21/abawi.afghan.acid.cnn
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