Nahida, a school principal in Kabul, is the third participant in our ten-week #
TeacherTuesday campaign
. In Afghanistan, conflict has raged for decades, cultural opposition to girls’ schooling is deep-seated, and education for girls was banned altogether under the Taliban. Nahida describes how she has struggled for 25 years to defend and improve girls’ education in the face of gender bias and conflict that still affect her work every day.
After graduating from Kabul University in the late 1980s, Nahida became a teacher. But then the Taliban came to power.
Under the Taliban: a secret school for girls
“It was their policy to close all the schools for females. For me, it was difficult to go to school to teach. When I went to my school, the principal was a mullah and he didn’t allow me to enter and asked me after that not to come to school. But…
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