By: Sina
Translate by: Sakhi Rad
16 September 2022
She is wearing a yellow veil; similar to the fall color. Her chignons are splashed on two sides of her chicks from under her veil. The collar of her black cloth has a flower. Embroiled flowers with thread. Maybe she has embroiled the flowers of her clothes or maybe her mother has embroiled them. The flowers of her clothes distanced her from others. There is a bag on her back which is written on it “UNICEF” in English. But, now a days no one support her and other girls and education for girls is considered as a big crime. If someone support them, he or she would strongly suppressed. Her bag is on her back, but she does not go to school. Maybe it would be better to say, they don’t allow her to go to school. Schools doors are closed to them and they have been deprived of their right to education as a basic human right. She has placed bread and water in her bag and has taken some sheep to the pasture. Now, it is 12 o’clock and she has brought her sheep under the shade of a tree.
She eats her bread and drinks her water beside the spring. Then she opens Dari’s literature book and starts turning its pages: Lesson 24. She says she studies besides taking the sheep to the pasture. “It is the second time that I have reviewed all my books. I study during the night at home and during the days in the mountains, should have time. Though the schools’ doors are closed on us we don’t quit.
Farzana is grade 7 although she is likely 17. She does not know her exact age. “The previous was the worst year in my life.” She says. It was a plaguy year. All our hops vanished last year. It was full of hatred and the beginning to stay at home as a prisoner and to be deprived of your basic right; the right to education and missing the classroom and your classmates.
Listening to Farzana, and considering her unclear future, I have nothing to say; especially when more than one year has passed and school doors are closed to her and other girls in Afghanistan.
I ask her opinion about the Taliban Acting Minister of Education on Girls’ school ban. Noorullah Munir, the Taliban’s Acting Minister of Education, stated that people do not want to send their 16-year-old daughters to school because of the current circumstances.
She say while her home is very far from the school in the village, but she loves to go to school. Her family also loves education and they support her and her two sisters to go to school. Farzana is interested in medical sciences and wants to be a doctor in the future. Now, I think about good days that will come; the days that school doors are open to girls and we think of realizing our hops in the future.
I ask her about her school and her classmates. “Well I remember, we studied biology. The system of parts of body was our last lesson. I was to get ready for my homework to present it to the class. Next day, when we went to school. We saw the school door was closed. And it remained closed until now. More than one year has passed from that dark day.
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