Her dream.
“My dream," she told the visiting Turkish ambassador whose country funded the school building, "is to have a hospital here in our village, next to the school. A hospital where my own graduates who go on to medical school will return to as doctors.”
When she was a young girl, she tells me over watermelon she has chopped up for us in her office, her father sent her to school in Jawzjan on horseback. The village frowned upon it. Now, she is the principal of the Asiabad Girls School, in Sar-e-Pul province, and she has about 630 students. Last year, they graduated their first class and this year they will graduate their second. Among her students are her grandchildren – including the little one in the picture.
In this country, this holds truer than ever: educate a girl, educate a society.
