Classrooms Across Cultures

The Governor’s personal invitation!
In 2004 Camilla led the first teacher training in Ghazni province, three hours south of Kabul. Its proximity to Taliban areas made it inaccessible for most nonprofits. However, The Governor of Ghazni learned of Camilla’s work in other parts of Afghanistan and asked her to train his teachers.

Over 120 teachers attended the first training session and a subsequent session the following year.

While there, she met a famous beekeeper who provided her with honey bee frames so she could teach about geometry - why the bees make hexagons instead of circles (it involves volume). She taught her students how to use bees wax, olive oil and local plants to make salve in her botany/chemistry lessons. It soon became the basis for many entrepreneurs, especially women, in the area as they sold the salve.
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Unfortunately, it became too dangerous for Camilla to return to Ghazni the following year.

Please come back!
In 2008, the Ghazni Minister of Education came to Kabul and begged for more teaching. He stated that her salve was being used throughout Ghazni, but that they had run out of it and they wanted to learn more about which plants they could use. She took his entourage to a large garden in the lodge where she was staying in Kabul and talked about each plant and how to add the oil and wax.

Her heart is with the people of Ghazni and she is determined to return there someday soon.