Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): The United Nations launched a "school in a box" project on Tuesday to help restart classes in earthquake-devastated Pakistan and Kashmir.
The UN will distribute 2,000 boxes in the quake zone containing slates, pencils, chalk and notebooks.
The earthquake that struck on October 8 flattened hundreds of schools in Kashmir.
Six hundred teachers and as many as 17,000 were killed when the earthquake struck.
Those left behind by the killer quake are slowly rebuilding schools.
Farmooda Abbas lost two of her four children in the earthquake but she has put her sorrows behind her and is trying to help the children who were spared get their lives back together.
"I feel that these children in the classroom are my children. I will dedicate my life to educating children here. God has given me the chance to serve them," she said.
The Government Girls High School in Narol, where Farmooda works, is only one of ten schools to begin classes after the quake damaged about 10,000 schools.
However the infrastructure available is practically nil.
Headmistress, Government High School, Khalida Khaliq says, "These children need to be sheltered. We need a school building, books, notebooks, blackboards and easels to run a school."
However till help comes from the United Nations, many children will have to wait their turn for education.
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