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These ladies really are studying basic, basic Arabic.
Probably, they've only known their own tribal language, which would be, probably, Masalit, or maybe Fur, maybe Zagawa,
and now they have an opportunity in Khaled school, twice or three times a week
to learn Arabic letters, to learn how to read and write.
And still in Khaled school, two minutes later, we're next door,
where we're teaching literacy to older ladies
who don't have a chance to study,
have not had a chance to start or complete their education in Sudan.
And here we are, same day, still in Khaled School.
This building's much better. We built this last year.
Much stronger building, and it's going to last.
But we haven't come here this afternoon to look at the buildings.
We've come here to look at students and the class.
You see, this is a literacy class and the beautiful thing about this is
it's morphed into a class for girls who can't go to school during the mornings
because they have other duties at home.
So, come and see the teacher, teaching these girls.
And this is the end of the session.
They've studied for an hour, maybe two hours. It's phenomenally hot.
And they're going home.