Despite the Taliban crackdown on girls' education in Afghanistan, Roya Azimi runs a secret school, risking her safety to educate Afghan girls covertly. She recruits top female teachers and ensures strict security measures to protect the students from Taliban scrutiny.
Pupils at a secret school in Afghanistan are drilled on security: did they keep their notebooks hidden on their way in? Were they conservatively dressed? Its headteacher’s greatest fear is that one of the students might be working for Taliban intelligence https://t.co/aR0rV0SJPT
Afghan women and girls are resilient and adaptive in the face of relentless barriers. Today I convened the Alliance for Afghan Women’s Economic Resilience Summit to talk about new partnerships to advance entrepreneurship, employment, and education for Afghan women and girls. https://t.co/perrbOj6Yk
Despite the risks she’s taking by secretly schooling Afghan girls under the Taliban, Roya Azimi says she isn’t scared. “I have this strength…and that’s not something everyone has.” Her job, she tells 1843 magazine, is to give that strength to her pupils https://t.co/bbwiEfGdBN
When the Taliban cracked down on girls’ education, Roya Azimi tried hard to convince some of the best female teachers in her province to join her in covertly tutoring pupils. Neggeen Sadid reports on a secret school in Afghanistan for 1843 magazine https://t.co/3WuKqcJVEw
Meaningful participation of women in all aspects of life is essential for realizing the dreams of peace and development in Afghanistan. #Let_Afghan_Girls_Learn https://t.co/fcFT7K6tEE
When the Taliban roared back to power in Afghanistan, education activist Pashtana Durrani had 7,000 girls enrolled in her organization. The schools were shuttered but she's now living in the U.S. and still working to educate girls back home. https://t.co/4L112QcJdl
Great story on the efforts of Afghan female teachers to keep instructing girls despite what Taliban jihadi a**holes are trying to do #terrorism https://t.co/iloidq9pur
The first sign that the Taliban knew about Roya Azimi’s secret school for Afghan girls was when one of her neighbours phoned her. “Tomorrow, they’ll take you away, they’ll take your husband...I’m just warning you” https://t.co/bpWnuOAwzy