Afghan Girls' Education

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110224/lf_nm_life/us_afghanistan_girls_1

A lot of the time I forget how lucky I am to live in a place where as a woman I am accepted to school. That growing up my school was never more than 10 minutes away. I take for granted being able to go to school with out the fear of my school being attacked. In this article it talks about girls in Afghan how at the age of 18 only 18% still attend school, while the males are at 42%. Some girls that do go to school, do not attend everyday and it can take up to 3 hours to get there. How are they supposed to learn like this? I just cannot say enough how truly blessed we are here being able to go to school unafraid.