BBC education show in Afghanistan helps children banned from school
Facebook channels, will be part of the BBC Persian TV channel schedule, and will air on radio through the network of BBC FM transmitters in Afghanistan as well as on short-wave and medium-wave radio."Every day I speak to a lot of Afghan girls who are still in the country and they tell me they cannot go to school," she says. "They are very helpless and sometimes they seem hopeless.
They have also said the international community's decision to freeze aid payments means they do not have the money to spend on female-only classrooms.BBC Pashto presenter Shazia Sangarwal is teaching Afghan children maths by adapting BBC Bitesize content Mariam Aman is one of the programme's producers and says that adapting BBC Bitesize content for an Afghan audience went beyond translation. "Do a boy or girl living in rural Afghanistan know what pizza is when we are talking about fractions in maths or should we keep it as big round bread?"
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