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Sakena Yacoobi and the Afghan Institute of Learning
[ 2009-06-15 13:11 ]

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Organization's founder brings education to women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat , Afghanistan, she saw many women suffer. They had no education and little or no medical care. Many died in childbirth.

In the 1970s she came to the United States. She became a professor and health consultant. But in 1992, she visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. What she saw persuaded her to return to her homeland.

Sakena Yacoobi and the Afghan Institute of Learning

In 1995 she started the Afghan Institute of Learning. The organization began by serving Afghan women and girls in the camps in neighboring Pakistan.

At that time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan. The rulers would not let girls go to school. Sakena Yacoobi risked her life to set up 80 secret schools in Afghan homes. About 3,000 girls attended these schools.

American-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in late 2001, after the terrorist attacks on the United States.

Today Sakena Yacoobi says her organization avoids the most dangerous provinces. It operates education and health centers and traveling clinics. The institute has trained more than 15,000 teachers and has provided health education for half a million women. Seventy percent of its four hundred fifty staff members are women.

The group invites men as well as women to discussions on the Koran's teachings about the equality of the sexes.

In 2003, to educate women, the institute established Gawhar Shad University in Peshawar, Pakistan. The university currently has about 180 students. Around the same number already have graduated. The university offers degrees in education, business, nursing, health education, math and computer science.

Each year, the Afghan Institute of Learning serves about 350,000 women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sakena Yacoobi has received many awards, including this year's 250,000 dollar Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. In accepting the award from Claremont McKenna College in California, she said: "Every day, I see the impact of education, and that's the force that keeps me going on."

And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jerilyn Watson, with reporting by Carolyn Weaver.

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