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New Balance donates shoes to Afghanistan

27/03/2002

US footwear firm New Balance Athletic Shoe Co. has made a donation of around 28,500 pairs of athletic footwear for Afghan girls as part of a programme of aid for the country. Until this month girls over eight years old in Afghanistan had not been allowed in school, and under the Taliban no girls of any age had been allowed in school at all.

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