Canada gets set...

...to build "The Great Wall of Khandahar."

Vice-chancellor Abdurrahim Farahi says it's not that students are being attacked by insurgents, but that a general climate of fear and instability is dragging the place down. He says the wall would help in a variety of ways.

It would help provide an enclosed area on which to build a soccer field, instead of having nomads digging tents into the campus lawn, he says.

Guests from abroad might feel safer to visit and share their knowledge with the students. It might attract more women than the 95 currently enrolled at the school.

And, more young people from Kandahar's rural areas would feel safe coming to study in town and sleep in a campus dormitory, he says.

“The boundary wall is very, very important. It will bring big changes to the university.”

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