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March 31, 2011 | TNR

Afghanistan Dispatch: Permanent Recess

Anna Badkhen, for the Pulitzer Center, Oqa, Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, literacy is a villager’s only chance to break the cycle of poverty. But despite billions of dollars of aid, the children of Oqa and other far-flung settlements remain illiterate.