- Afghanistan..

Population estimated a 32.7 million

- Home to a number of ethnic groups

- Very mountainous and dry

- Only 6% of Afghanistan is cropable

- Temperatures range from 32-degrees in winter to 115-120-degrees in summer

- Precipitation: 10 to 12 inches per year in the form of snow

- Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth, with more than 53% of the population living under the poverty line

- Opium is the country's most valuable export

-Afghanistan imports much of its food and energy

-Agriculture is 90% of the labor gorce, with an unemployment rate of 40%

Education was the key to our Team's work with the Afghan farmers. For them to rebuild, a lot of local farmers, and a lot of local businesses were uneducated when it came to agriculture. "They were still trying to do farming practices that their grandparents did. They were not moving forward.

Education made a difference.