Nearly 20 children attended their first day of classes Jan. 26 at a newly-opened school in Kandahar province's Maruf District in Afghanistan. This is the first school to open in Maruf in nearly 15 years. Maruf District Governor Abdul Samat Durrani said he was proud to see the school open. "We have been working very long to open our first school here,” he said, “and today there were many young children who arrived.