Life in an Afghan School
Updated: January 02, 2009
Since the Taliban regime was ousted in Afghanistan, hundreds of school doors have been opened for girls all around the country. While the Taliban was in power, women and girls were forbidden to work, learn or show their faces in public in the 1990s. Even though these young women still wear burkas to cover their hair and faces, inside the classroom they are free to remove the burka and reopen their textbooks.
Read their firsthand experiences and view photos of the students as they go back to school in the Photo Gallery below. For more information on life in Afghan schools, check out the two news articles below on the bout of acid attacks on young women and the struggles young students face to attain an education.
View photos and read more about young women returning to their school in Kabul.
Teenage girls are returning to school after a series of acid attacks against female students.
Schools for girls in Pakistan are closing due to threats by the Taliban reminiscent of Afghanistan in the 1990s.
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