That you very much.
Ms. Vandenberg, my wife and I at Christmastime were very fortunate to adopt a child, Elizabeth, from Malawi. She's eight years old from a family of peasant farmers. She is not labourer, and she loves going to school, so she's getting some education.
It's probably easy to set up some of the things that you've been talking about in areas that are relatively stable. Malawi right now is relatively stable. But in war-torn areas, and in some of these countries where the rule of law just isn't there, it has to be very, very difficult. There's corruption, there's everything to go against even education.
Now, it's my understanding that the investment in education in Afghanistan, and the education of girls, was one of the foremost parts of the Canadian government initiative there. Yes we had forces there, but along with that we did support the education of girls, and to give more education.
Could you just speak a little wee bit about what happens in some of the more stable countries like Malawi, and what might happen in Afghanistan, and the change we've made there?