Free Literacy App for Women Launches in Afghanistan

Smartphone software designed to increase literacy among Afghan women is being distributed to students for free in an effort to reach the government's goal of 48 percent literacy among those over 15 by 2015. "I could not go to school because the Taliban took control of Kabul city," said 18-year-old Muzhgan Nazari. Although her father wouldn't let her go to school, Nazari has convinced him to allow her to attend a literacy training center for women where the phones are being given out.