After a moving ANZAC Day Dawn ceremony with the Australian soldiers at the Tarin Kowt Multi-National Base, MAMA’s Patron, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, along with MAMA’s General Manager, Paul Singer and Director, Stephen Brady, left the coalition base to visit the Malilai Girls’ School in Tarin Kowt.
The Australian Defence Force managed works team, part of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Uruzgan province, helped to build the Malilai Girls’ School.
The school has capacity for 700 students and consists of 23 classrooms, three laboratories and a gymnasium.
The Governor-General, Paul Singer and Stephen Brady presented several thousand much needed Afghan textbooks to the students during the visit.