By: Rukhshana Media
With “Fearless Education” placards, dozens of women and girls gathered in front of different schools in Kabul on Saturday, October 29, and knocked on the gates to let the girls above the sixth grade attend their classes.
The protesters gathered in front of Alfath, Maleka Soraiya and Bibi Sara high schools.
According to the protesters, the “Fearless Education” campaign is to reopen schools safely for girls. They also ask the international community to support Afghan girls.
The campaign is started after the famous Afghan signer, Farhad Darya, invited Afghan women, teachers, and female students to join the peaceful protest for the reopening of girls’ schools in Afghanistan.
The female students participated in the campaign with their school uniforms.
“When we wanted to enter the school, the principal did not allow us and reported to the Taliban,” Samira*, a women’s rights activist and one of the protesters says “Before the arrival of the Taliban forces, we left the school.”
Fereshta*, another protester, says it’s more than 400 days that the Taliban de facto administration has not let girls above grade six return to their schools without any satisfactory answer or a logical reason.
