Save the Children Australia
24 May 2023
Love of learning runs in the family
As a girl growing up in Afghanistan, school was never a given for eight-year-old Skina*.
A lack of qualified female teachers and poor school infrastructure, together with community attitudes that that limit girls’ access to education, mean thousands of Afghan girls have never set foot in a classroom.
Things only got worse when the Taliban instituted a ban on girls going to secondary school and University last year. As a result, thousands of female students were forced to stop their studies overnight.