girls still mourning lost textbooks, even pencils pens, Shaukat Ali be — Greg Mortenson, Stones Schools: Promoting Peace Books, Bombs, Afghanistan Pakistan

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Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.

Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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