October 5 marks World Teachers' Day, a UNESCO-sponsored day dedicated to recognizing the importance of teachers' work. Photos from across RFE/RL's broadcast region show teachers working hard to make a difference in their students' lives, sometimes under difficult conditions or without proper resources.
World Teachers' Day Across The Region
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Schoolgirls in burqas listen to their male teacher in the outskirts of Afghanistan's Herat Province.
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Kyrgyz children listen to their teacher during a lesson at a local school in a tent in the city of Osh.
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Afghan students sit on the floor during a lesson at the Nasoana school in Kabul.
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A pupil shakes hands with a teacher in Iran.
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Girls study in an open-air school on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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A lesson in the village of Andi in the Russian republic of Daghestan
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Students and their teacher hide their faces from the camera at a girls' primary school in Bajaur Agency, Pakistan.
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Children study chemistry at a school named after former Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.
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10-year-old Rovsan Qurbanov, from Azerbaijan's Aghsu region, wants to study at university and become a teacher someday.
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Schoolchildren belonging to the Afghan community in Moscow learn Dari and Pashto with their teacher.
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Female students attend classes in a tent in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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A teacher writes letters from the Kalasha alphabet, used by the Kalash minority, during a lesson in Pakistan's northwestern Bumboret Kalash valley.
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A Georgian teacher gives a lesson for three schoolboys in the South Ossetian village of Akhmaji.
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A teacher and her students in the courtyard of their school in Baghdad
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Students and their teacher in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province
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Primary school classes in Baghdad
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Teacher Nibras Qassim was left partially paralyzed after an illness, but has returned to teaching math at her home in Kut, Iraq.
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Students learn archery at the Pishtaz School in Tehran, a preschool for gifted children.
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Students listen to their teacher at Habibia High School in Kabul.