My dear readers,
Yesterday I watched a talk on TED about girl in Afghanistan. It was the story about Shabana Basy-Rasikh. She told about her childhood as a little girl and this priceless gift she had from her parents: education. Shabana Basy-Rasikh is 22 and went to high school in America under the YES exchange program and just graduated from Middlebury College. During her studies she found a nonprofit organization HELA devoted to help and empowering Afghan women by the access of education. In the USA many media talked about her because she built a high school for girls in her home village. She said that what gave her this strength to fight for all Afghan girls and women was her childhood. The Taliban arrived in Afghanistan when she was a little girl. Suddenly Shabana had to sneak out to go to school obviously an illegal school. She had to dress up like a boy and accompany her sister everywhere. Indeed her sister was already a young woman so she always had to be accompanied by her father or her fake brother. Each day they had to take a different road to go to school in a way that nobody could guess something. Sometimes the school was closed for a week or more because the Taliban were suspicious. What helped her to keep going? Education. Her father told her that in life you can lose all your money and belongings but only one thing stays it is education.
Yesterday I watched a talk on TED about girl in Afghanistan. It was the story about Shabana Basy-Rasikh. She told about her childhood as a little girl and this priceless gift she had from her parents: education. Shabana Basy-Rasikh is 22 and went to high school in America under the YES exchange program and just graduated from Middlebury College. During her studies she found a nonprofit organization HELA devoted to help and empowering Afghan women by the access of education. In the USA many media talked about her because she built a high school for girls in her home village. She said that what gave her this strength to fight for all Afghan girls and women was her childhood. The Taliban arrived in Afghanistan when she was a little girl. Suddenly Shabana had to sneak out to go to school obviously an illegal school. She had to dress up like a boy and accompany her sister everywhere. Indeed her sister was already a young woman so she always had to be accompanied by her father or her fake brother. Each day they had to take a different road to go to school in a way that nobody could guess something. Sometimes the school was closed for a week or more because the Taliban were suspicious. What helped her to keep going? Education. Her father told her that in life you can lose all your money and belongings but only one thing stays it is education.
This story is one
of many. We often heard that education is difficult in some countries for
girls. But I would say too often! Is it normal that a little girl had to sneak
out and fight to go to school? Why today
in 2013 a girl can’t go to school? Why so many men are afraid about educated
women?
