What is unique about Gad?

Gad Primary School is an elementary school located on the outskirts of Nyala, Darfur. It is attended by boys and girls, and is very nontraditional in that it teaches girls to read and write. Amira learns about it by way of Halima, and sees pictures of the school on CNN. Amira desperately wants to go to Gad, and it becomes a dream of hers by the end of the novel. When the novel ends, she and Old Anwar are leaving Kalma to journey to Gad Primary School.