In case you didn’t realise, educating women benefits everyone.[1] Somehow the bunch of primitives, maniacs and misogynists who took over in Afghanistan don’t realise this. Instead they have banned women and girls from all serious education. Is this more dim-witted than cruel, or more cruel than dim-witted? Unfortunately for them, someone more intelligent has found a way round their idiocy.
The Herat Online School [2] now provides online teaching for girls in maths, science, Persian Literature, health and a whole range of other subjects for Afghan women of all classes. These are the words of their founder, the redoubtable Angela Ghayour
“I simply could not sit and witness the despair, tears and grief of the girls of my homeland, so I started to light a candle in the dark to keep the hope of the bright day alive”.
We have scraped these words from the website of a truly marvellous organisation called Children on the Edge [3] They spend their time trying to do their best for underprivileged and marginalised children in some of the poorest and most desperate countries on earth. And they realise that you can’t help children if you oppress their mothers, so they are backing Herat Online School to the hilt.
Wouldn’t it be nice if this starts a trend? Imagine if all the women of Afghanistan started learning online, in the most modern subjects in the world. While their brothers are stuck in the Madrasa, rote learning religious texts and stripping down Kalashnikovs. How long long will the ghastly Afghan regime last then? We can’t ask you to donate to every cause that flits across our screen, gentle readers. We know that. But we can beg you to diffuse knowledge of these brave organisations as widely as you can. One day, you may be able to look back and say ” I helped to educate a Doctor.”
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_impact_of_female_education
[2]https://www.childrenontheedge.org/lateststories
[3]https://www.childrenontheedge.org/aboutus.html
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