In 2001, only 700,000 children went to school in Afghanistan. They were all boys. The Taliban did not allow girls to go to school. We have gone from a total of 700,000 children in school in 2001 to over six million today, of which two million are girls.
The situation in Afghanistan today is that more children are going to school than ever in the history of the country. It is a country emerging from three decades of civil war and abject poverty, and it just doesn't have the basis for providing universal primary education. It has a way to go to provide schooling for all children in the country, but they have hit a high-water mark on this.
Canada has provided the lead support on the national education strategy, and it's one of the reasons Canada announced a signature project last year to build or refurbish 50 schools in Kandahar as part of that overall effort of expanding education for all.