The National Post: When Sakena Yacoobi ran 80 underground schools for 3,000 girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban, some teachers hid books in sacks of wheat and rice to avoid detection. “It is very hard to operate a school where the students cannot be seen,” says Yacoobi, who is known as Afghanistan’s “mother of education.”
Albawaba: More than 50 schools have been closed due to recent clashes between security forces and insurgents in the provincial capital and three nearby districts of southern Helmand province, education officials said on Wednesday. Helmand education director Abdul Matin Jaffar told Pajhwok Afghan News during an exclusive interview that 51 schools had been closed in
New China TV video description: At her age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize, an award previously won by Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan.
Tolo News: Former President Hamid Karzai on Saturday opened ‘Karzai Foundation’ which he said was aimed at providing the young Afghans with higher education opportunities. Karzai said at the opening ceremony that the foundation was not established for political purposes. He said through the foundation, he will help the destitute young Afghans to carry on
It was one of the only schools in Afghanistan’s Logar province still teaching girls. But on the night of October 28th, Taliban insurgents – who are opposed to female education past the age of eight – set fire to the Haji Golan school. Click here to read more (external link).