by Beth Holmes | Sep 26, 2022 | News, Other
Somaya Faruqi speaks for the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan, in front of the United Nations in an emotional speech. Somaya Faruqi was the captain of the Afghan girls’ international robotics team last year. In August, she fled her country as the Taliban...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Taliban hasn’t been paying teachers in Afghanistan. Now UNICEF is stepping in to make sure Afghan children don’t lose all access to education. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, international trade and banking sanctions against the new...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 8, 2021 | News, Profiles, Teacher Issues
Angela Ghayur is teaching a thousand students who would not otherwise get an education now – women and girls in Taliban-held Afghanistan. Ghayur was only 13 when she began teaching, a refugee from Afghanistan in Iran. Her family had managed to surmount the paperwork...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 30, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Afghan teachers are pleading with the world to not ignore what will become of female students under the Taliban. Twenty years ago, when the Taliban previously ruled parts of Afghanistan, they mandated that women could not work, drive, or be in school. This time, as...
by Sarah Green | Feb 28, 2014 | News, Profiles
In recent years, there has been a major increase in awareness about the state of education abroad, namely in the Middle East. Courageous female education activists such as Malala Yousafzai have risked their lives in order to bring education reform to the forefront,...
