Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Defying the Taliban, Afghan girls open underground schools in the fight for education
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“To educate girls is to reduce poverty.” – Kofi Annan, seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations KABUL, Afghanistan – Down a narrow, cobble-stoned hill in the suburbs of Kabul, rows of young women wrapped in ebony and floral hijabs stare intently at mathematics equations on a whiteboard. Only this isn’t a proper school. This is a family home – a home that almost four months ago became an underground school desperate to learn more than a year after Afghanistan fell back to a Taliban government.
Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Defying the Taliban, Afghan girls open underground schools in the fight for education
Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Defying the…
Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Defying the Taliban, Afghan girls open underground schools in the fight for education
“To educate girls is to reduce poverty.” – Kofi Annan, seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations KABUL, Afghanistan – Down a narrow, cobble-stoned hill in the suburbs of Kabul, rows of young women wrapped in ebony and floral hijabs stare intently at mathematics equations on a whiteboard. Only this isn’t a proper school. This is a family home – a home that almost four months ago became an underground school desperate to learn more than a year after Afghanistan fell back to a Taliban government.