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Mina Wali, Hope of Mother director, presents a notebook to a student for scoring the highest exam grade in his class, Feb. 4, 2009, while U.S. Air Force Capt. Dustin Hart, Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Surkh Rod sub-governor Said Ali Akbar, look on. The Hope of Mother School educates more than 400 students in the rural Sham Shapur village in Surkh Rod District, Afghanistan.

SCHOOL OF HOPE

Mina Wali, Hope of Mother director, presents a notebook to a student for scoring the highest exam grade in his class, Feb. 4, 2009, while U.S. Air Force Capt. Dustin Hart, Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Surkh Rod sub-governor Said Ali Akbar, look on. The Hope of Mother School educates more than 400 students in the rural Sham Shapur village in Surkh Rod District, Afghanistan.

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