Construction on Afghanistan's first nursing school has begun in Faizabad, capital of the northern Badakhshan province with the financial support of the United States, a local official said Saturday.
"This essential project bears 1 million U.S. dollars provided by the United States," Abdul Maroof Rasikh, spokesman of provincial administration told Xinhua.
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Ekinberry laid the foundation stone of the project at a ceremony on Friday, he added.
The war-torn and post-Taliban Afghanistan mostly relied on foreign aids as the international community has hugely contributed over the past eight years to help rebuild this country's infrastructures.
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