Update from AfghanistanDistance Learning Comes to Afghanistan

Distance Learning Comes to Afghanistan. San Francisco-based group to use satellite broadcasts to educate children in rural areas. Ivan Velinov. Epoch Times. Online November 2006. A San Francisco Bay Area-based group has launched a unique educational program that will improve literacy for children in rural areas of Afghanistan via satellite television. …The two-hour educational programming will be shown into 15-minute segments. One of the segments will be the Arabic version of Sesame Street which was produced in Egypt, but the show will be dubbed in Dari and Pashto, the native languages of Afghanistan. …