KABUL, Aug. 26 Kyodo Afghanistan ...

KABUL, Aug. 26 Kyodo

Afghanistan privations $870 million over the nearest 16 months in international help to rebuild its train system, Afghan Education Minister Yunos Qanoni said Monday.

Qanoni made the plea for foreign aid at a freshs conference as he unveiled sway plans to rebuild war-ravaged teachs buy school books and equipment, and train teachers.

Afghanistan has 45 million children in instruct age, but only two thirds of them go on to school, Qanoni said.

Qanoni said Afghanistan must further education or else young Afghans may be drawn into terrorism or the illegal medicine trade.

Afghanistan distresss to build new 2,500 educates and rebuild the existing, badly equipped seminarys most of which he said have no drinking water or toilets.

Qanoni said there is a shortage of 51 million textbook in Afghanistan and a wide shortfall of blackboards and chalks.

In Kabul alone, there is a shortage of 13 million place of education desks and chairs, he said.

Qanoni said the nation has a shortage of 29000 teachers and many teachers commonly teaching have received no formal education.

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