The increase in adults taking literacy courses has been very significant. These are 10-month courses, and 11,000 have just completed another session. That's in our quarterly report. Where I see it clearly manifested, we've had some comments. Bryon mentioned some situations related to the Afghan National Police.
Just to give you a snapshot, two years ago when I was there we had the RCMP doing some police training. They were literally training these officers how to stop a vehicle without blowing it apart; how to get people out of a vehicle without blasting them with a bazooka. These are fairly basic things for our police forces.
This time when I went I was looking at some of those same police officers, and they get diplomas as they hit the different levels. They had reconstituted a crime scene where a vehicle had been attacked. They had--if I can use a sort of Hollywood reference--a CSI-type of scene set up. They had little markers all over on the ground around the vehicle where there were shell fragments. They had their tape measures out. They were walking around with their notebooks taking note of what they had seen. So here you had officers who were previously almost illiterate, for whom basically stopping a car in the correct way was a major accomplishment, now reproducing a crime scene in a fairly sophisticated fashion, gathering evidence and taking notes.
So the literacy is having its effect with the police officers, but also in the general population. The majority of the people in this last tranche of 11,000 who took the course were women. That's manifesting itself. They are more capable when we provide micro-financing for small business loans to them. It all kind of works together. So progress is being seen. We want to see more, but it is measurable and taking place.