EDUCATE OUR GIRLS! CLICK IMAGE TO READ MORE They want to be teachers, doctors and scientists, a dream that would not have been possible just ten years ago. On 18 March, throngs of girls lined up singing and clapping to welcome UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, and Afghanistan’s Education Minister Farooq Wardak to the Ayesha-e-Durrani school in Kabul. The school, named after the first woman who opened a girls’ school in Afghanistan, was severely damaged during the war. … [Read more...]
Girls of Afghanistan: “The Pen is the Sword”
May 21, 2013 by Team Celebration
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