(12 Aug 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 29 July 2022
1. Various of Afghan schoolgirls above sixth grade inside makeshift classroom
HEADLINE: Afghan girls face uncertain future in education
2. Tilt up of girl during English class in informal school
ANNOTATION: It has been a year since most teenage girls in Afghanistan have set foot in a classroom.
3. Various of girls during class
ANNOTATION: At a house in Kabul, dozens gathered for classes in an informal school set up by Sodaba Nazhand.
4. Various of Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls, writing on whiteboard
ANNOTATION: She and her sister teach English, science and math to girls who should be in secondary school.
5. Student looking at whiteboard
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls:
"After schools were closed for girls, I decided to provide an environment for girls in a hidden school for girls and we set up chairs and tables in a house so they can come and study here."
7. Teacher instructing students
ANNOTATION: The Taliban took over the country a year ago and banned girls from continuing their education past the sixth grade.
8. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Dunya Arabzada, secondary school student:
"It is very disappointing, it is different to be in a proper school than here, but I see a lot of my classmates, who can't come here and they stay at home and it is very disappointing that girls are not allowed to go to schools."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 9 July 2022
9. Wide of Taliban check post in Kabul
10. Taliban badge on police officer's sleeve
ANNOTATION: With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for young women.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 29 July 2022
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls:
"The Taliban, with its extreme ideology that they have against women, have not changed, they are the same Taliban of 20 years ago, but we can't be the women of 20 years ago. We have to continue our struggle with the pen and our voices."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 2 August 2022
12. Various of women rights activists and school students protesting against closure of school for girls
13. Close of signs
STORYLINE:
For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it's been a year since they set foot in a classroom.
With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women.
At a house in Kabul, dozens gathered on a recent day for classes in an informal school set up by Sodaba Nazhand.
She and her sister teach English, science and math to girls who should be in secondary school.
Hers is one of a number of underground schools in operation since the Taliban took over the country a year ago and banned girls from continuing their education past the sixth grade.
While the Taliban have permitted women to continue attending universities, this exception will become irrelevant when there are no more girls graduating from high schools.
The relief agency Save the Children interviewed nearly 1,700 boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 17 in seven provinces to assess the impact of the education restrictions.
The survey, conducted in May and June and released on Wednesday, found that more than 45% of girls are not going to school, compared with 20% of boys.
It also found that 26% of girls are showing signs of depression, compared with 16% of boys.
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