22 Jan 2011 | no comments » women
Sorya is a high school student, in her spare time, she helps her siblings collecting grapes on farm. Education under the Taliban went from bad to worse. Under the Taliban rule she wasn’t able to go school neither could work in the field. During the Taliban’s rule, only about 3 per cent of girls received some form of primary education. The prohibition of female education, coupled with the cultural mandate that women receive their health care from female health care providers, resulted in a vulnerable population receiving care from poorly-educated providers.
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08 Feb 2010 | no comments » Children, hazara, women
Education is a source of social and economic advancement as well as a vehicle for teaching children to be good citizens. She is a young girl in district of Sharestan (Shahrestan) province of Daikundi, who never had opportunity to go to school. For the last years, billions of dollars poured in Afghanistan but life in Hazarajat central part of Afghanistan never improved. Hazaras as a minority are almost forgotten. Estimates suggest that 30% of Afghan children are engaged in child labor, and discriminatory traditional practices make girls more vulnerable.
05 May 2009 | no comments » Children
Small shepherds in of Ghazni Districts, the picture is taken in 2006.
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