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Girls in Afghanistan-hidden violence again girls in Afghanistan



Photo Credit: My own camera

I, as a young catalyst of education for women and girls in Afghanistan, have been traveling to rural areas where women were not allowed to read and learn, this was to survey the area and consider what they need. During these years between 2005 to 2015, I was traveling by office transportation where I was working as a corporate social responsibility coordinator. My job was to design a study for the deprived areas where help is needed. I was traveling so far from the city that there was a great risk to security. The driver of the office transportation was not willing to drive to those areas and he was making me so scared. He was telling me to stop coming to these rural areas because he was getting tired of driving long, I also had to travel because that was my job to earn money. He was telling me if I go to this area anymore, he will tell the entire men of that area that I am there to invite the Muslim women to Christianity religion. I was also related to a middle-income family and I needed to pay my university fee from my salary. I was afraid if lose my job I might lose my education too, I mean I would have no money to continue my education at university If I do leave this job, but this job was also full of risk for me from many angles. I was trying to balance both sides of the job and my problem with the driver. I was also not able to complain about the driver because he had the power as a man to torture me anywhere, as he knew my way to my home and to the university. I,  as a girl in Afghanistan, have not been only suffering from my family as they wanted me to get done all the cleaning at the home besides a full-time job and full-time study at university, I have been mentally tortured at the workplace too. You might be thinking that a girl traveling with office transportation is comfortable but unfortunately that was also a nightmare to tolerate it.  What I am writing here Is my real story! the photo which you see is from those deprived girls of Afghanista for whom I was going to meet. 

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