Girls Education

:   Written by: Ferishta Sahak

More than 8 million children are going to schools and girls are included in this number but in some villages, the families do not allow their daughters to continue their study after grade-six. These girls might face some problem in the future.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to some girls and their parents about this problem.

Sapna says: “my father did not allow me to go to school and now when I see a book and could not read it, I become very disappointed.”

Khatira, a resident of Kapisa province says: “When I was in my father’s home, my parents did not allow me to go to school. When I got married, I saw that all females in my father-in-law’s house are literate and they help their children in school lessons and I could not help my children, I became disappointed and could not feel myself a good mother.”

Sajida, a resident of Kochkin village, Shakardara district, Kabul province says: “the school was far away from our village and no one was allowed to go to school but when a girls’ school established in our village, I asked my father to allow me to school but he did not. I was always trying to convince him and saying to him that most of our village girls are going to school. Finally, he accepted and now I am in sixth-grade.

A teacher, Ghotai says: “when I was a student, I was trying my best in my school lessons and completed my school and now I am a teacher in one of the schools and I have a salary. My husband does not  have a job and I could fulfill house necessities.”