Class is in session

A female teacher makes her way to Ustad Musbah school in Kabul. Not your typical school building, this residential home was recently converted into a scholastic institution.

The school pictured here offers classes from grades one to nine. While mixed classes are common in primary schools, once students reach the seventh grade they are segragated into male and female only classes.

Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 five million children have returned to classes - 35 percent of them girls.