15-10-2023, 10:32 AM
Intriguing way in which Afghani girls can still get some education.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67017945
"A BBC programme for children barred from schools in Afghanistan has been described as a "learning lifeline" by the United Nations.
The show is being used in secret school lessons, the BBC has learned.
Its name, Dars, means lesson in Afghanistan's official languages of Dari and Pashto.
The ruling Taliban prohibits girls from receiving secondary or higher education.
On the day she was told she could no longer come to work at school, Afsana, who is a teacher, lost her purpose in life.
The 28-year-old worked at a secondary school for girls in eastern Afghanistan. Now, like some other former teachers in the country, she has set up a secret school.
Twenty-five students, all girls, between the ages of 12 and 18, gather in her basement. The only tools she has are a whiteboard, a phone and the BBC Dars programme.
With no signal in her makeshift classroom, Afsana downloads short videos of the show to play to the students, who then write her a summary of what they have seen. "My students watch with interest and passion," she says. "Their hopes have been raised and they are still dreaming for the future."
The show, which has just launched its second series on TV, online and radio, is hosted by BBC female journalists who themselves fled Kabul more than two years ago, after the Taliban's return to power.
Any form of learning "provides safety hope and opportunity", says Yasmine Sherif, the executive director of Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations global fund for the education of children in crisis".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67017945
"A BBC programme for children barred from schools in Afghanistan has been described as a "learning lifeline" by the United Nations.
The show is being used in secret school lessons, the BBC has learned.
Its name, Dars, means lesson in Afghanistan's official languages of Dari and Pashto.
The ruling Taliban prohibits girls from receiving secondary or higher education.
On the day she was told she could no longer come to work at school, Afsana, who is a teacher, lost her purpose in life.
The 28-year-old worked at a secondary school for girls in eastern Afghanistan. Now, like some other former teachers in the country, she has set up a secret school.
Twenty-five students, all girls, between the ages of 12 and 18, gather in her basement. The only tools she has are a whiteboard, a phone and the BBC Dars programme.
With no signal in her makeshift classroom, Afsana downloads short videos of the show to play to the students, who then write her a summary of what they have seen. "My students watch with interest and passion," she says. "Their hopes have been raised and they are still dreaming for the future."
The show, which has just launched its second series on TV, online and radio, is hosted by BBC female journalists who themselves fled Kabul more than two years ago, after the Taliban's return to power.
Any form of learning "provides safety hope and opportunity", says Yasmine Sherif, the executive director of Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations global fund for the education of children in crisis".
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)