“If you educate a girl, you educate a community,” said Greg Morenson, school founder in Afghanistan and Pakistan, when he came to speak at Mount Holyoke in December. His words came to mind as I was reading about the recent attempts to poison schoolgirls in northern Afghanistan.
Last week, 88 Afghani girls fell ill due to poisoning attacks for which local authorities suspect the Taliban. Mohammad Qasam Khamoosh, one of the doctors treating the girls, told the CNN that these are “terrorist activities against education in the country.”
Today, only five months after Mortenson’s inspiring speech, Afghanistan is still struggling to educate its girls and, hence, its communities.
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