In amongst all the doom and gloom over the economy, the EU, folks getting arrested for not bowing to the wee fella, etc, this caught my eye in the HDN.
Thirteen high school teachers have traveled around villages in the southeastern province of Batman to convince the parents of a total of 45 girls to send their offspring to school.
The teachers, with the support of the principal of the high school, Abdurrahman Alan, raised the total number of female students in the school from 35 to 80. The number of female students has now reached the same number as male students.
“We are trying to persuade the parents to send their girls to schools,” said English teacher Fethiye Akdağ from the Black Sea province of Samsun, adding that the students “were happy to be receiving an education and working for their dreams.”
“The parents who previously thought that girls don’t need to receive education are now more conscious,” she said.
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