Education in Afghanistan

 Afghanistan is a country ubicated in the south of Asia. Is a country with a lot of problems, but one of them is the differences between girls and boys. 

This problem affects directly the education of the country, because a lot of girls don´t have acces to education. 

The 21st century seemed better, but in 2008 the taliban seized power. They closed all of the girls´s schools and they decreed women had to stay in the houses of her husbands or parents, but this would not end here.

A little girl called Malala started to write a blog about the gender problem in her country, and how that difference affects the education of the girls. With the blog, Malala had started to make a lot of noise in the world, a lot of people started to share her blog and comment about the problem of the education with the arrival of the taliban, so she was converted to a dangerous person for this radical islamic group.

In 2012 Malala was attacked by a group of taliban when she was in a bus after school. She survived, but while she was in recovery at the hospital, a lot of people took the streets to speak out against the taliban and to call for improvments in girls´s education.

 With the time and the militar intervention of USA, the taliban started to lose power and control. The girl´s schools were starting to open again, but there was another problem, a lot of girls wanted to go to the school, but there were not schools nearby. 

So even when the taliban lost their power, girls had problems to have access to education like boys. So we have two issues, the girl´s education is not promoted and not all the girls who want to be educated in schools have the possibility to do it.

With the activism of Malala, a lot of girls and familys understood the importance of the education with  no gender differences, but few months ago, the taliban regeined the power and one of the first things they made was close all of the girl´s schools and eliminated the Ministry of Women

This is a very sad new for all the girls and women, because they have a patriarchal and  violent position about the role of women. 

The importance of all of this and what it makes me think more, is the fact that we are in 2021 and we still fight for the fullfilment of HUMAN RIGHTS. Is very difficult to understand why there are groups who believe that girls have different rights than the boys. 

The education is the key to the development of society and we have to share the knowledge with all of the kids, not only boys. Every kid have the right to have access to a good education, otherwise we lost all of the different point of views about all of the changes that we can make in our world to transform it in a better place.