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This web site’s mission is to convey Canadians that they should get involved in Afghanistan. The situation in Afghanistan it’s not really enjoyable. The culture is very present in everyday life in Afghanistan, especially for women. Security is also less protected. Women and children are reduced in their own country because Taliban exert violence and rules on them. Women have nothing to say and even fewer children. It's disgusting to see that women cannot have their own opinion. They can’t dress like we do and the kids can’t go to school as we go. Those people have the right to be educated, to live in good conditions, to have a personal opinion and being able to say it loud, etc. Finally, this blog is for you to understand that we must act and help them, so all the Afghans will already have a better security. We must, Canadian citizens, help those people who never asked for anything. Put yourself in their shoes and see how lucky we are here, in Canada. We have to help Afghanistan.

Definition

Canadian’s soldiers are in Afghanistan for a special mission. They are there to help Afghans by building to them a new country and to make a stable, democratic and independent society. The principal’s goals of Canadian involvement in Afghanistan, during their five years in Afghanistan since 2006, are to make a safe environment and to apply the law and order with the help of the national Afghan army and police. They are also helping all the Afghan population to get a good education and a job, to improve essentials services like drinking water, to provide assistance to vulnerable populations and also to refugees and finally, to assure the security at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. So, the Canadian’s soldier’s mission is really to take back peace in this country, to fight against the Taliban and also to lead to a political reconciliation. They are there to help principally women and children to get a better life, with all the liberty that they are aloud to have.

Education in Afghanistan

After the Soviet war and the civil war, many schools were destroyed.  Also, Taliban destroyed the entire  infrastructure of education. This is in fact a very difficult time for Afghanistan, because of the Taliban who make their rules in this country. The Taliban have conquered and governed many of the entire Afghanistan. Since the year of 2001, the situation gets better then when the Taliban were prohibited the right to a good education. Now, more than 5.4 million children are enrolled in schools in Afghanistan and about 35% are girls according to the Afghan Ministry of Education. It's already very good, but we still need to work hard to really make the school accessibility to everyone in this country. Much remains to be done for Afghanistan so she can get what modern countries today. Approximately 11 millions Afghans are illiterate. We must help this country, because education is an essential element in life. Whether for work, social life, etc, education should be obligatory for everyone. We have every right to education and this is even an obligation to age 16 years and it is fine like that. Unfortunately, Afghanistan's education is not the same as in Canada. It is not mandatory. Canadians must help children and women in Afghanistan. We must help each other we are all together.

By Amélie Thibeault

Canada's support to women and young girls

The Afghanistan is a state really strict about women’s rights. It was interdict for women to work, to be educated after eight years old. It was only permitted to study the Quran. Twenty two million people need international assistance and most of them are women and children. It’s deplorable! Don’t you think? It’s to help those people and especially women and girls because before 2000, a woman or a child was nothing. The Canadian army is really present in the life of the women and girls in Afghanistan. In 2011, Canada continue to focus on education and health for these women by supporting some projects which are: Strengthen human rights for women, access to education for girls and literacy for women, make better maternal health, strengthen women’s political implication and raise women’s economic opportunities. For example of what they made for girls and women, in 2001, no one girl was allowed to go to school. Today, approximately 2.2 million girls are enrolled in school. More, Women were treating like nothing, to compare, like a dog, and now for the election of 2010, there was a record number female candidate. So for all these reasons that I mentioned, I think Canadian involvement is a really good investment.

By Myriam Henri

Canadian army’s operation against Taliban in Afghanistan

The big war against the Taliban really began when the Canadian Forces returned to Kandahar after being deployed to Kabul in 2003. The Taliban began a major offensive that Canadian soldiers did not expect. A record number of attacks against Canadian soldiers had been set. Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in the beginning of the summer in 2006. Daily firefights, artillery bombardments, and allied air strikes took place in the Panjwaii District. The battle was in favor of the Canadians. When the war ended, Taliban flooded back in the Panjwaii District in numbers that had not been seen yet. In September, Canadians launched Operation Medusa in an attempt to clear the area of Taliban fighters from Panjwaii once and for all. After a week, the area was clear. On 15 December 2006, during Operation Falcon Summit, massive Canadian artillery and tank barrages clear pockets of Taliban resistance. From 15 July 2007 to February 2008, the focus was on intimately working with the Afghan army, police and civil administration. Canada has announced that it will withdraw the bulk of its troops from Afghanistan in 2011. There are millions of Canadians who don't want this strategy to continue.

By Sarah Lafleur-Chamberland

Life in Afghanistan

For my part, I think that Canadian soldier have to be in Afghanistan to help people, most particularly women and children, who are living there. They have to help them because I can’t believe that women can’t go to school and have a good education. They can do anything about it because when they try to assert their point of view, they are spread by acid in the face and many others things too disgusting like that. Statistics demonstrate that 97% of the afghan women are illiterate, because Taliban master 90% of the Afghan territory. (Fraternet.com) So, the Afghans women can’t resort to health services, what deteriorates the risk of diseases and problems bound to their pregnancy and also during the childbirth. What about children’s conditions? The young girls are obliged to marry 40-year-old men, but also to act as a 40-year-old woman, while they have only 10 years old. They are victims of rapes conjugal, of sexual attacks, physical violence or psychological, often connected with the forced and very often early marriages. They don’t have good conditions of life. For these reasons, I think that Canadian soldier should be in Afghanistan to help women and children who live their, to improve their conditions of life.

By Frédérique Desgagnés

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