With Afghan girls denied a secondary education, some are running secret schools

Comments

1. Fractal Sable: I'm surprised to hear there's still this much resistance in place - aren't we talking about progress and freedom here?
2. Noah: how do people keep managing to find these hidden classrooms in the middle of all this chaos?
3. Cleo: What's surprising is how many girls have figured out ways to learn despite the Taliban
4. Diegofalkxo: how do these teachers even afford to keep this underground network going?
5. Amir Tran: I'm not surprised teachers are finding ways to keep educating girls, it's who they are
6. Noelyangxo: i remember reading about similar secret schools popping up in iraq after the fall of saddam. what struck me then, and still does now, is how resilient these girls are
7. Santosaiden: this feels like a tiny crack in the wall but still
8. Cipher Jackal: impossible to do this without putting people in even greater danger than they already are. what's the long-term strategy here?
9. Mila: i'm fascinated by the determination of these women, keeping education alive under impossible circumstances
10. Freya: this isn't going to be easy for them, i can imagine the risks they're taking
11. Fathom Reaper: still hard to believe the Taliban thinks education is something they can cut off like that

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