School writing class
Chitral, Pakistan
A white-washed board serves as a pratice paper for learning how to write. Urdu -- what the boy is writing -- goes right to left, like Arabic, in wonderful cursive waves. In this school there are no desks, no books. Only a swept place on the ground beneath the shade of a tree in a courtyard.
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