By Rebecca Bryant | Manager, Workplace Giving
Numbers at a Glance-
• One Afghan child in four dies before her or his fifth birthday, many of preventable causes.
• About 85% of women give birth at home with untrained attendants; the number is much higher in rural areas.
• 30% of healthcare facilities are without any women health professionals: doctors, nurses and midwives.
• 100,000 teachers are needed in Afghanistan, including 48,000-plus new women teachers, if there is to be an essential increase in girls’ enrollment and retention in school.
• Only one woman teacher in three has the required education; some 27,000 current teachers will need support to increase their knowledge and teaching skills.
• The vast majority of rural parents do not understand child development. According to a recent Save the Children survey, only 19% of mothers believe play is useful to promote learning and only 4% believe that it readies a child for school; no fathers understood that play helped their children’s cognitive development. Almost all adults think corporal punishment and verbal berating are acceptable ways to discipline children.
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