{"book":"adl0981","page":34,"text":"Little girls and boys of the Kabul kindergarten perform a native dance in traditional Afghan national dress\n\nassistance was concluded between\nAfghanistan and the Federal Republic of\nGermany last year. Under the terms of\nthis agreement the Government of the\nFederal Republic will devote greater\nattention to the development of our\ntechnical schools. Early in April this\nyear the Government of the Federal\nRepublic sent seven teachers for technical\nschools in Afghanistan as follows:—\n\nSchool of Mechanics in Kabul\n4 persons.\nArts School in Kabul ... 2 persons\nSchool of Mechanics in\nKandahar ... 1 person\n\nIn addition to these teachers, the\nFederal Government has promised a large\nquantity of machinery and equipment for\n\nthese schools. This assistance by the\nGovernment of the Federal Republic\nforms a valuable contribution towards the\ncompletion of technical schools in\nAfghanistan.\n\n4—Technical Assistance from\nFrance:\n\nA similar agreement on technical\nassistance was also concluded between\nAfghanistan and France during the same\nyear. Under this agreement the Govern-\nment of France has, together with other\nassistance to various Afghan organisa-\ntions, promised to co-operate with the\nDepartment of Vocational Education.\nThis promise is expected to take practical\nshape in due course.\n\n31","chars":1292,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00034.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/34","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/34","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}