Taleem Dadaan, Sawaab Daddar. In the “Secret School” in the Kabul neighborhood, a girl wrote a sentence from the board in the Persian script. “Give education, get virtue.” The underground school in the suburbs of Kabul began in July this year, one in 50 which was founded by activists of women’s rights, a few months after the Taliban regime in Afghanistan banned schools for girls studying in grade 7 and above. In the interpretation of the Taliban about Islam, there is no sawaab in educating girls. While women so far have not been stopped from going to university – men and women go on separate days – remembering the prohibition of schools, there will be no new acceptance.
In class 26 is a woman of various ages, including a woman in his thirties, who had to drop out of school in fourth grade during the first Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, and her daughter, who was supposed to start class 8 in March but now left school -Two generations of women who know firsthand what it means to have a dream, what for women and girls to live under Taliban boots.
“I will never be able to return to school after that. I came here because this is an opportunity to re -study how to write and read from and can do some amounts, so that I can teach my children, “said the mother. His daughter said he thought the class was too basic, but “I don’t want to forget what I have learned at my school. Plus, I can meet another girl here, like I used to be at school. This is more fun than living at home. “He wants to be a teacher when he is an adult. Another girl she wants to be a nurse.
This school is held every afternoon from 3 pm to 5 pm at the first floor midwife’s house, which has a bachelor’s degree in education. The refrigerator with a fruit magnet has been pushed sideways to make a room for girls, who sits bending on the carpet. The drum helps support the blackboard. They learn to read and write from (in Persian manuscripts) and memorize multiplication tables.
“When we first started, there were some girls, but the word spread and it seemed like I would soon have 40 girls and women here. I might need to start another class, “said the teacher, who worked at the United Nations as a community outreach but found himself without work after the Taliban took over in 1996. Women and girls are one of the first parts of the Afghan population that are directly affected when the Taliban returns to rule the country on August 15 last year.
In a report in June this year, the United Nations documented a series of restrictions on Afghan women since last year which limits their freedom and rights. After the formation of the cabinet, all of which were male, the first pleasant signal came when the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was replaced by the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Representative Prevention. Since then, a number of decree have followed the code of dress for women in public and for women’s television journalists, and rules about women’s mobility. Now it is mandatory for a woman to be accompanied by Mahram – a male family member – when traveling beyond the radius of 78 km.
Women who work, including those in government, are asked not to come to work. Many lost their jobs, some were allowed to return to one day a month, and once a few a week, but only to sign a list of attendance. For this, they receive a reduced salary. Only the teaching and health sector avoids. Women also continue to work where their presence is considered necessary by the Taliban – the most obvious, in the police and airport security, where female passengers need to be surrounded. At work where women continue to work, they have been separated from their male colleagues.
In Kabul, young girls walk, books grip their bodies in black, to attend private English training classes known as “courses”. This is the only type of education that is now permitted for teenage girls, besides “Islamic” education in Madrasas.