Africa: Reclaiming Schools As Zones of Peace, Culture

For Safia Ama Jan who championed education in Afghanistan for three decades, school was a sacred place. To her, the future of Afghanistan rests with ending the senseless violence and discrimination that keeps girls hostages of their own communities.

Under the repressive Taliban regime, she ran a clandestine school for girls from her home in Kandahar Province. In the wake of the Taliban regimes’s demise, she worked tirelessly to get Afghan girls back into school.

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~ by kingstonstone on June 6, 2008.