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A girl's trapped dreams



I am Maryam, an Afghan girl who was born in 2000 in the city of Kabul with thousands of hopes. My family was a family of intellectuals and people of knowledge, my mother was a teacher. My sister is a doctor. My brother is an engineer. We had a very happy and peaceful life in Afghanistan for 22 years and I was always pursuing my goals and dreams. I studied and had most of the successful projects in construction engineering and I was in the third class of the university when everything and everything in Afghanistan was destroyed and turned into a country of terror.Fear, destruction and terror were everywhere when August 15 was a bitter history for Afghan women, the day Kabul fell and the Taliban government came. With the coming of their government, girls' right to education was taken away. And all the people left Afghanistan with displacement and fear and became refugees in the neighboring countries on the day when all my dreams were destroyed. But still, I lived under the Taliban regime for a year and I did not have the right to study or leave the house. But again, I taught Afghan girls privately at my home so that they could study, or I taught them online through WhatsApp so that they would not stray away from their education and goals. After that, I decided that I should not be silent. I took an active part in all the forums related to Afghan women to defend their rights, and during this period of one year, I turned more to writing and drawing, and I always felt the pain and heartache of Afghan girls. I put it on paper and wrote it, and I made my writings fluent in several forums so that it would reach the ears of the world, so that the world would not forget Afghan women. But over time, the conditions in Afghanistan for women became more and more limited until girls no longer had the right to go to university and school, and this was something that really depressed me to see this situation and I always cried for Afghan girls and myself. that we no longer had the right to choose like before. No girl in any other country has suffered like Afghan girls, the world left Afghan women alone, Afghan women were marginalized, but no country and no institution helped Afghan girls for their rights. This was the story of thousands of girls who are currently living in despair and fear in Afghanistan, and one of them was my Afghan girls.

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