
Making a Better World for Girls
When I see young children on our streets selling cigarettes and gum, polishing people’s shoes, cleaning cars, and begging instead of studying it makes me even more determined to stay in school.
When I see young children on our streets selling cigarettes and gum, polishing people’s shoes, cleaning cars, and begging instead of studying it makes me even more determined to stay in school.
People should not be thinking: “This person is Tajik, this person is Hazara, this person is Pashtun.”
I want to create a national hospital in Kabul with extensions to all the provinces in Afghanistan. In this way people in Afghanistan will not have to go to other countries like Pakistan or Iran for treatment.
Instead of encouraging me, the enemies of education for girls burn our books.
Children like getting the Eid gifts, but adults like the part of Eid that calls for reconciliation.
This woman said: “I will neither go to my husband or my father, because one of them sells me and the other one buys me.” I am not a piece of dull equipment to be used.”
I love the fresh fruit, the dry fruit: pomegranates,
raisins, figs. I love the kohl, henna and bangles,
the clothing, pottery, flowers, gardens.
The doctor began to cry. He wiped away his tears and told me, “I don’t want to say that you should not work hard.
My mother’s dream for me is that I will become a doctor.