peter shitake was one of the first german development aid workers in afghanistan. twenty years ago he came from southern germany to the afghan capital kabul and started up a small aid organization called. in diary one of the official languages of afghanistan often means well done. although he did a great deal. throughout the years his project is now threatened with closure. was it really really hurts to see what's been lost or already has been lost or. dollars but maybe one day we can bring it back to life has taught us. all through the city. that so no wonder. schmidt it his wife and the mathy and their local coworkers have taught tens of thousands of afghan girls how to read write and do arithmetic it's an incredible success story in a country where more than sixty percent of the people are illiterate. swallowed up water to understand what their organization does we visit the celica time mosque in a poverty stricken neighborhood on the outskirts of kabul. nan wet. big. bracelet. will leave it there. like these young pupils follows the. first learn the alphabet an

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in here at the time peter shitake took on a job as a math professor in kabul. since then afghanistan has been a part of his life. third story it gets a hold of you it's happened to lots of people who came here they've somehow remained attached to this country for their entire lives man that's what happened to me it was all for a game. of the night but it was only in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the shitakes began to set up their school project since retiring they've run it on a volunteer basis many of their coworkers such as office manager hussein have already had become friends. to tech doesn't hesitate to tell them what he thinks has gone wrong with the international mission in afghanistan. he's been pursuing i really think that afghanistan has been left completely alone on the educational front of us money has been poured into the system so that they can pay their teachers if poorly and construct school buildings but in terms of what goes on inside the classrooms they've been completely left on their own multi-focal a limitless. now the german aid wor