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June 8, 2024 marks 1000 days since the Taliban banned girls from attending school

June 8, 2024 marks 1000 days since the Taliban banned girls from attending school

Partnering with V-Day means working with stories powerful enough to change the world. So when we read Sania’s vivid story of witness, about the closing of schools and crushing of dreams, we felt an urgency to extract the visual qualities of her story for as many people to experience as possible.

The resulting series, Afghan Women Speak, is now being converted in animated and narrated reels. But the reality of Afghanistan and it’s crushing brutality towards women means that we can’t use her real name, nor we can we use her real voice. She’d likely be killed for this – for telling a story about her life.

Today, June 8 marks 1000 days since the Taliban banned girls over the age of 12 from attending all school across Afghanistan. Similarly, they are forbidden from working for NGOs. The Taliban knows knowledge is power and will do everything they can to keep Afghanis from obtaining it so they can control them.

V-Day’s post on their social media channels says it better than we could:

“My Name Is Sania” was written shortly after. We cannot underestimate the power of our solidarity at this moment.
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#VDay’s #AfghanWomenSpeak: Stories from Inside #Afghanistan series amplifies the stories and voices of Afghan women who can never be silenced. Every day, their rights continue to be violated, stripped, and threatened, but they continue to share the reality of their lives on the ground, in their own words. More stories continue to come in every day. And we continue our ongoing RISING for and with the women of Afghanistan as we seek ways to help directly. As always, we emphasize that local women best know what their communities need. We RISE with you, our Afghan sisters.
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Read and Share their stories: vday.org/afghanwomenspeak
•SUPPORT Afghan women and their families, DONATE to the Simeen Mobile Health Team today: rise.link/supportsimeen
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