Four years ago, Julia Bolz, a human-rights lawyer and Queen Anne resident, approached the Coe Elementary School community to ask whether the students would be interested in helping raise funds to build a school for girls in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.
During the six-year rule of the Taliban, Afghani girls and women had not been allowed to attend school, and many schools had been destroyed. Coe students responded by raising more than $4,000 toward constructing the school and began a cultural exchange with its students that continues today.
The latest chapter in the effort was written March 25 when Coe students devoted six hours of their Saturday to stage a bake sale at "Coffee Corner," the junction of Queen Anne Avenue N. and Boston St.
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