Writing a New Future - Elle Canada
Canadian Lauryn Oates’s efforts to improve literacy and gender equality in Afghanistan is helping pave the way for peace.
Excerpt: “ ‘Countries most likely to be at war are those with the worst education systems,’ Oates tells me passionately. ‘The status of women is the single greatest predictor of instability – and in Afghanistan, the mother’s education level determines the level of income, child mortality, sanitation and close to 80 other indicators.’ ”