Children sit shoulder to shoulder, crammed in rows on the floor of a shipping container with lesson books in their laps — the remains of their school unrepaired in the six months since a major earthquake devastated their village in western Afghanistan.
Hundreds of schools are still damaged since a series of strong quakes jolted Afghanistan's Herat province in October, with many students returning to lessons in tents and containers in March, according to the Herat education department.
Girls and boys in the village of Nayeb Rafi in Zindah Jan district studied in a packed container tucked between tents and small, blue homes newly built on a barren stretch of land.