Education Education Leaves Disabled Behind Afghans face many barriers to accessing education, from lack of schools to poverty or family and social biases. However, disability is one of the worst as it can prevent Afghan youth from overcoming even the most simple barriers.
Access to Education No Education for the Displaced Sustained conflict in Afghanistan over the last four decades has repeatedly forced Afghans to flee their homes, either internally displaced, or migrate to other countries. The displacement, and migration, caused countless children to leave school, most often for good.
Access to Education Rural Villages Get First Schools The Taliban are building schools across Afghanistan, in communities where no school existed before. While their policies on education have been criticized, this is a positive step. Yet the scale of the need is vast, and challenges remain.
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Access to Education Long Walks for Little Learning The long distance from villages to schools remains one of the main barriers to schooling across Afghanistan, especially in rural areas with less access to essential services, including education.
Access to Education Culture Keeps Girls Ignorant Afghan female baker Bibi Gul is the second in three generations of women in her family deprived of education documented for this story. Plucked out of school in 6th grade, she struggles to accept the same fate for her daughters.
Education Taliban Approve Academy for Women A woman in southwestern Nimroz province has established an education facility offering courses in computer science, religious studies, and English. This initiative aims to provide educational opportunities for women and girls barred from seeking education above 6th grade.
Human Rights Two Years Later, Pensioners Still Wait Retired Afghans who served in various public sectors lament pension cutoffs following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. These pensions served as an economic relief for families in dire need of assistance.
OneDayinAfghanistan The Girls in Hiding; A Cafe for Women In Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan’s province, a group of girls opened “The Hidden Girls’ Cafe”, a restaurant exclusively for women. In addition to offering local food, the cafe provides a safe space for social interaction between women.
Human Rights Tortured for a Better Life Afghan migrants deported from and residing in Iran report the distressing situation, including harassment, abuse, and restrictions on movement that they face in the neighboring country.
Press Release Education, Still Out of Reach for Most Afghans Today we’ve published our first article with the support of Afghan Witness, “Education, an Afghan Conundrum” examines how religious and cultural biases prevented many women from going to school in the period before the first Taliban government. In the coming weeks and months, we will investigate where schools are
Access to Education Education, an Afghan Conundrum They were told school is not for them, that it’s bad for a girl to seek education, and were made to sit at home at a young age. Now, these Afghan women above 40 years in age share accounts of their crushed hopes.
Yemen These Houses are More Than Homes This week, take a stroll through the traditional stone houses of Sana'a, Yemen with Mohamed Algadi.
OneDayinAfghanistan Illiterate Among the Literate Baba Zareef’s dream of being educated was quashed at 11 with his father arrested. At 67, he now works as a janitor at a local school, a place he once hoped would change his life for the better.
Afghanistan Displaced Once More Pakistan has served as a second home to Afghans escaping their home country for decades, but the neighboring country’s recent crackdown on and deportation of Afghans has left many with an uncertain future.
OneDayinAfghanistan Her Greatest Dream, to Walk Anisa is a 26 year-old Afghan woman paralyzed from the waist down due to her family’s disbelief in vaccines. She uses her hands to walk around the house.
OneDayinAfghanistan Community of Hazaras Living Among Pashtuns A small community of Hazaras lives peacefully in Garmser, a Pashtun-dominated district of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Residents of the village talk of the strong relationship between the two ethnic groups.
Agriculture A Small Farmer with Big Dreams Pascaline Miburo only wanted to raise a family and make her parents proud. Although she has a bachelor's degree, Pascaline lives in poverty, surviving on subsistence agriculture grown on her small plot of land.
Natural Disaster After Quake, A City of Tents A devastating pair of earthquakes coupled with numerous aftershocks starting on the morning of October 7 in Afghanistan’s Herat province has left 1,300 people dead, and more than 17,000 others affected.
Forcing Children Into Marriage Written by Samira Wafa ZARANJ, NIMROZ — “Don’t raise your voice; you have no say!” 11 year-old Nazia was told by her father when she was engaged to Ghani, a 26 year-old man working in neighboring Iran–she was only seven at the time. Nazia’s dowry was a mere
OneDayinAfghanistan Afghan Glassblower Keeps Art From Dying Ghulam Sakhi has been a glassblower in western Afghanistan’s Herat province for 40 years, but this craft has been a part of his family for generations. Sakhi now harbors the fear that the artform will perish with him; his final wish, after his passing, is for the art to survive.
OneDayinAfghanistan Decades of Illiteracy; The Generations That Have Been Forgotten Generations have gone without the opportunity to seek education in Abi, an area in Chora district of Afghanistan’s Orguzgan province. In addition to that, no health centers exist in the area, exasperating the issues people in this area face on a daily basis.
OneDayinAfghanistan Disabled Afghan Soldier With No Pension A former Afghan soldier who lost a leg to a mine now sells dried fruit on the side of a road. The pension paid before the Taliban took control no longer available, leaving him and thousands of others to fend for themselves.
OneDayinAfghanistan A Hope For Afghan Children Afghan businessman opens two learning centers serving 1,000 underprivileged children in his home province of Logar. The schools are located in areas where none existed before.
OneDayinAfghanistan Child Farmer Dreams of School Written by Sabawoon Ahmadi ZARTALAY, GHOR— Muhammad Asif is a 12 year-old child farmer from Zartalay, a village located 45 kilometers south of Firozkoh, the capital of Afghanistan’s western Ghor province. Since he was six, Muhammad has been spent each year working alongside his father, Hamed. The boy spends