This country has lived through generations of war, first with the Soviet Union and then with the latest group coming in there and fighting. That has to occupy the psyche of these people in a way that very few other places on earth really know. I think it is, comparatively speaking, part of why they were held so backward in some areas.
You talked about how the more resourceful people are setting up these schools in people's homes. There is obviously a thirst for learning there, and for perhaps at the grassroots level the cultural change that's necessary in the mindset of men. That mindset has to start valuing women in a different way, and valuing their intellect as well, because that's not done at this point in time.
I think that home-school may well be that opening you need.