Afghanistan vs Ukraine
Side-by-side comparison of how these places approach childhood.
Afghanistan
Since 2021, Afghan girls over 12 are banned from attending school.
The Taliban's return ended two decades of progress in girls' education, affecting 1.4 million secondary-school girls.
Ukraine
Ukrainian children practice air-raid shelter drills alongside fire drills at school.
Since Russia's 2022 invasion, schools operate with bomb shelters, online backup plans, and trauma counselors.
Afghanistan
Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, girls above grade 6 are banned from school and women from universities. Boys' education continues but with revised curriculum emphasizing religious studies. Before 2021, enrollment had risen from near-zero for girls to 3.5 million.
Ukraine
Ukraine's 4-5-3 system aligned with European standards through 2017 reforms. Since 2022, education operates in crisis mode โ schools without shelters teach online, frontline regions evacuated. Over 3,700 educational facilities have been damaged or destroyed.
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