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From CARE: Since January 2006 CARE has established 364 libraries in Primary Community Based schools in the provinces of Khost, Kabul, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni, Kapisa, Parwan, Logar, Wardak, and Balkh.
The project is funded by Robert Field and Société Générale.
Sixty-seven libraries for Lower Secondary Community Based Education in Khost and Paktia have also been put in place. The initiative improves access to reading materials and resources for students, teachers and School Management Committees members in order to reinforce and supplement what is taught in the classroom.
The Lower Secondary Community Based Education in Khost is funded by two private donors (Dusty Huscher and the Boll Foundation) and the project in Paktia is funded by AusAid. The project provides the only educational library service in those provinces.
During the second quarter of 2010 the project could establish 78 new libraries for COPE,Emergency CBE, and Secondary projects in Khost, Logar, Wardak, Ghazni, Parwan, Kapisa, and Balkh provinces and also undertook its routine activities for the previously established libraries.
