Matiullah Wesa مطيع الله ويسا
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Founder & President @penpath1 Human rights Defender Education activist: launching libraries & helping to re-open closed schools in rural Afg🇦🇫 #ILA30Under30
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Every morning when I get up, check my phone and I see many messages from my friends asking me if I’m safe and if my work is safe. I always tell them that one day I will be killed for my work for education young girls and boys, I have lost all my wealth and my home. Fighting ……
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We want education for girls.
We want schools for girls in ever village
We want higher education for girls
We want education and human rights
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
#GirlsEducation
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95 year old man from Arghistan Dist of Kandahar says that he wants his grandchildren to go to school and he gave his message to all Afghans that please send your daughters to school it’s their human right
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
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Islam says educate girls
The law says educate girls
International law says educate girls
The Prophet says educate girls
Education is every girl’s human right
We want every Afghan girl to have access to education
We will campaign and fight for this
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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My mother calls me every 2 hours or so to make sure that I’m safe. I told her today that I work for children’s education, human rights and I won’t stop my work even if they kill me. Don’t worry about us I will sacrifice myself to succeed in my goal I have worked in conflict areas
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Today many people got heartbroken
Many mothers cried
Many girls cried
Many young girls’ dreams shattered
We are not happy
Why we cannot be educated
The whole world send girls to schools
It’s only in Afghanistan that they are not allowed
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#Afghanistan
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In Dand Dist of Kandahar everyone one, young and old from streets to mountain from village to towns everyone wants their children to go to school. We have travelled through 325 districts in 34 provinces and everyone is asking for support in educating their children
#SupportPaktia
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Girls education is
A way to long lasting peace
A way to end violence
A way to stay independent
A way to rebuild The country
A way to educate a generation
A way to defend human rights
We will fight for girls education and ensure every girl has access to school and higher edu
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Don’t close the girls school. This is every parent’s wish for their daughter to be educated and build Afghanistan. We have seen this in every child’s face in villages, hence we work hard to achieve this
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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This is the Punjwaye Dist, is a remote Kandahar but people are supporting
@PenPath1
in their compaign for girls education and human rights
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
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Men, women, elderly, young, everyone from every corner of the country are asking for the Islamic rights to education for their daughters. Penpath female volunteers calls for girls education and their rights to education
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Girls education=Freedom
Girls education=Equality
Girls education=Fairness
Girls education=Development
Girls education=Human Rights
Girls education=End of War
Girls education=End of Violence
Girls education=Peaceful Afghanistan
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Girls Education is : Our Redline
Girls Education is : Our goal
Girls Education is : Our Slogan
Girls Education is : Our Hope
Girls Education is : Our Responsibility
Girls Education is : Our fight
Girls Education is : Our Way forward
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#GirlsEducation
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Yesterday during our campaign we asked an elderly man about his wish and he said he wants her granddaughter to go to school and university and become a doctor. She is in grade 6 and that was his wish.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
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My friends and family are telling to abandon my campaign in regards to girls education and go abroad. No one will appreciate your hard work. Don’t put your life and your family in danger but my response is always that I fulfil my duties, I will build my country. I have accepted..
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Girls education message to every house!!
We spoke to locals here and discussed that the only way to eliminate violence is through education. We should work for girls education to improve our life and we can compete with other nations
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#LetAfghanWomenLearn
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During our village to village campaign for girls education people expressed their opinion that they want school and uni for their daughters. In order to stop war m, the nation should be educated. Girls and boys should be get education
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathJowzjan
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Few words from the bottom of my broken heart
I didn’t chose a safe life abroad
I didn’t accept high positions during the past govt
I didn’t invest in my dad & g dad’s land to have a comfortable life
Instead, when I was a student alongside my brother I chose Penpath and 1/2
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7 months I have been travelling day and night and as a result we managed to provide opportunities for 5000+ girls to have access to education It’s our country and us Afghans can rebuild it. We didn’t receive any foreign aid for our work during the past 7 months
#PenPathVolunteers
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We campaigned for girls’ education alongside locals in Maroof Dist of Kandahar. We have tried out best to fulfil our duty and have travelled to every corner of Afghanistan to campaign for human rights and rights to education
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
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We worked tirelessly and every hour of day and night to provide education for the children, even in unsafe areas. Looks like our dreams will not turn to reality, fighting is burning and destroying our schools once again. Children are stuck at home and in fear of war.
#Afghanistan
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Thousands of people have assured us about girls education. We won’t leave half of the population to live in dark, we will raise our voice and will obtain our right.
We are prepared to sacrifice everything for girls education, girls will definitely go to school and will provide..
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We want girls school to open in Afg every Afghan regardless of their ethnicity, Uzbecks, Pashtoons, Tajiks Hazaras Shia and Sunnis, men and women are asking for girls school to open as soon as possible
This is our Islamic right and we are entitled to it
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Girls education, we want.
Girls schools, we want.
Human rights, we want.
Food, we want.
Peace, we want.
Clean water, we want.
All fumdematal rights, we want.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
#PenPathVolunteers
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This is Kandahar Panjwaye dist and locals are demanding schools and education for girls. I visited this area sometime ago and met locals gathered on slopes of mountain demanding human rights, schools and education for girls
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
#Afghanistan
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Today, many schools in some provinces didn’t open to girls. They did not allow girls to go to school. Please don’t sacrifice girls education for politics. Allow girls to go to schools.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Fighting for education is my life goal and even if I lose my life I will not stop. I don’t want the children of my country to miss out on education. I will fulfil my goal.
#EducationForAll
#HumanRightsViolations
#HumanRights
#humanity
#Afghanistan
#Afghan_lives_matter
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Girls are crying in front of this school. Today
@PenPath1
volunteers encouraged people to raise their voices for their rights to education. These girls are determined and don’t want their feelings and rights to be used for political purposes
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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It’s been years that I travel village to village and house to house and try to convince everyone to send their children to schools. Education will rebuild Afg Let’s unite for girls education, don’t be afraid of anyoneLet’s get our rights and fight for it
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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It’s not easy to work and campaign in this country, you will receive threats, you have to work nonestop, people will judge you, you will face problems, dangers and on the top of all this you have to succeed
#struggling
#Afghanistan
#struggle
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Closing girls schools and universities will only upset the nation, hinder country’s development, opposing the nations’ wish and refusing their basic rights, keeping the nation in the dark. This decision will have no good outcome, soon it will be very late to compensate the …
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Education is our Islamic right, today Penpath volunteers will encourage people to raise there voices and ask officials to open girls school. Let’s raise our voices collectively for our right to education
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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You will go to school
You will go to university
You will choose your favourite faculty
You will help and support your family
We have sacrificed our life for your education
Girls education shows how developed a country is
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#today
#GirlsEducation
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We receive enormous phone calls from provinces asking when girls schools will open. A friend of mine is telling me that her daughter gets up every morning with the hope that schools will open. Please consider people’s plea and open girls schools. This will end the stress that ….
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We distribute children story books to children from a remote area of Balkh Dist of Balkh province. A girl enthusiastically reads story to other children. They enjoy reading stories
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathBalkh
#ChildrensBooks
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Poy Mohammad is from Arghestan Dist of Kandahar he says that he wants school for girls and boys and for the to be able to stand beside other children in the world. He regrets that there is no school in their village and wishes that one day a school will be opened for the children
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This is the first time that these children from Neka Dist in Paktika province are receiving children literature books. They were very happy and we read them some of the stories. Let’s work together and get vulnerable children from remote area books and pens
#PenPathPaktika
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Today we asked an elderly man from a remote district that what will rebuild Afg. He replied education and for every man and woman to be educated. He added that he supports girls education and agreed to be part our campaign
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#GirlsEducation
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په افغانستان کې د نجونو تعليم لپاره کمپاين ږغ پورته کول هم جرم دی
ځکه خو نن زه کورنۍ او همکاران مو غټ مجرمېن یو
دلته قلم کتاب ويشل دپوهي پیغام خپرول ګناه ده
او زه بیا غټ ګناهګار ځګه ېم چې۱۴ کلونه مو د هېڅ دولت ، ادارې سره کار ونکړو
مونږ په جګړه کې قلم وېشه نن ېې حساب بایدورکړو
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Girls education is the route to stable Afghanistan, justice in the society, peace, human rights.Therefore we have accepted threats, difficulties and possible imprisonment butwe will defend girls education. We shall pass through the darkness to reach light
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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You raise your voice for your rights, ask for schools, ask for schools for girls. Food items distribution is temporary and will not solve your problem and if you want a sustainable solution so work for education and mainly girls education. This will solve all your problems…..
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A heart breaking news from
#SpinBoldak
Kandahar
A good friend if mine Waheedullah was martyred by the enemies of Afg in front of his family, wife and children in a very heinous and monstrous way. He was part of PenPath campaign and now his children are left without any support.
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So far, we have provided ( 56550 )
#girls
with opportunities to access education. They all were from areas that no one could open a school for girls due to the fear. We were committed and had strong well, put our lives in danger and succeeded. Our campaign continues in villages.
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We collect donations of books, school bags and stationery from people and take it to remote villages and distribute it among children. They get so excited and we also encourage them to work hard and build their country
#PenPathVolunteers
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We campaign village to village for girls education. People in every village support girls education and want their schools & universities to open. We will continue our work till schools & universities open. The whole nation supports girls education and our campaigns for it.
#Afg
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Girls’ education = End of ignorance
Girls’ education = developed Afghanistan
Girls’ Education = the path to building a bright society
Girls’ Education = the path to peace
Please open girls’ schools
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#Educate_Child_Educate_Nation
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Yesterday high up in the mountain we spoke to locals about girls schools, they all wanted their girls to go to school, they want their basic rights and ask for the girls schools to open immediately
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#SupportPaktia
#LetAfganGirlsLearn
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We were literally shouting in every village and city trying to convince people to send their children to school in order to get rid of conflict, have our human rights and have long lasting peace.
These were our slogans.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#LetAfganGirlsLearn
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We need education
We want education for girls
We want schools
We want peace
We want life
We want security
We want our own rights
We want developed Afghanistan
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
#GirlsEducation
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It was fierce fighting in Boldak and the next day Boldak was captured. We campaigned in the heat of the battle and promoted girls education. We travelled from village to village on motorbikes and spoke to people. During the campaign we told people that we are not part of the govt
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For the past 12 years we
-worked tirelessly, without any fund and salary.
- fought for girls education and provided opportunities for them
- during the past 20 days travelled to 3 provinces and spoken to people about girls education
-majority of locals have agreed to girls …..
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I have many stories of girls and their parents whose only wish was education and in the past 20 years no one listened to their plea. They lived in remote villages and none of the women rights or human rights activists visited them because these activists only cared about cities
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For the past few days I didn’t have access to internet and I was in those remote areas where no girls school existed for the past 30years Penpath created secret schools where girls will be able to learnWe will take the light of education where it’s needed
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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دلته زمونږ کمپاین وګورئ
مونږ خلک زده کړو ته هڅوو مونږ غواړو د تل لپاره د جګړي او پرديو د احتیاج نه خلاص سو.
مونږ غواړو خپله هرڅه ولرو مونږ غواړو د نوري نړۍ سيال سو.
داد پکتیکا ولایت د ژړوک ولسوالي کې زمونږ کمپاین و د نجونو زده کړه د افغانانو غوښتنه ده.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Girls take their books abs stationery to school in makeshift plastic bags. We travelled to 34 provinces to distribute school bags to help them learn more and encourage them.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Tomorrow
@PenPath1
female volunteers will once again protest in Kabul for opening girls schools . We will add ask for our rights and for our Islamic right.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathVolunteers
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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During girls education campaign, after meeting the locals we read children story books to children and they enjoy it so much, because children in villages don’t have access to story books
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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These elederly from Sorobi Dist, Kabul province, say that we want schools for our girls, don’t take away our Islamic rights from us. We want roads, hospitals and the infrastructure for our area.
This is every Afghan’s wish
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#SupportPaktia
#Afghanistan
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Maruf is one of the districts in Kandahar where no girl or boy has graduated from high school. My friends and I have been campaigning for education for years in here. This is our responsibility and duty we should encourage people to send their children to school
#PenPathKandahar
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We read some stories to children from children story books in Hazrat Sultan Dist, Samangan province. We also distributed some of the books. Children were happy to receive the books.
#PenPathSamangan
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During distributing children literature and story books to village kids. They were very happy and we read them stories. We distributed 300 thousand books in the whole of Afg and it’s very important for children’s mind development
#ChildrensBooks
#Children
#Afghanistan
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Tired of a life full of problems
Hopeless with no plan
Nothing to look forward to in life
Threats, fear and being judged. Fighting all the misconceptions
It’s life looking for a needle in a dark room
#Afganistan
#struggling
#problem
#life
#hope
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Rebuilding Afghanistan remains our responsibility. Let’s work together for human rights, girls education and fulfil our responsibility. Let’s work even harder than before and help the new generation
#EducationForAll
#HumanTrafficking
#HumanRights
#GirlsEducation
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Girls education = respecting women
Girls education = respecting sister
Girls education = respecting wife
Girls education = respect homeland
Girls education = respecting humanity
Girls education = respecting future generation
Therefore allow girls to go to university
#Afg
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Someone asked me that with such limited facilities and on the front line of battle we managed to reopen schools
We succeeded because we are fighting patiently, we don’t work for money, we are trying to build a nation and if we are committed we will succeed
#PenPathVolunteers
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Most of my friends keep telling me to give up on girls education campaign and insist that it won’t bring no change
But I respond to that I feel so content when I serve my people and nothing else will bring so much peace to me. We should sacrifice our comfort in order to achieve..
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We want education for girls
We want schools for girls
We want all the human rights
In Chahar Balook Dist of Balkh province our aim is to eradicate poverty, war, migration and all the problems and we believe to succeed in this girls education is a must. Our house to house ….
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All afghans want education for girls, be it university or school, education is human right and Afghan girls are asking for their Islamic rights. Preventing girls from education will keep the whole nation and Afghanistan in dark. Afghans should not stay quiet and
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Dear Ms
@BBCYaldaHakim
I am very grateful to you for travelling to Sangin in Helmand. This is truly patriotic. On behalf of
@PenPath1
I promise that we will build a school for children in that area
#EducationForAll
#Helmand
#children
This father in Sangin, Helmand province tells me he wants to send his children to school but there aren't any in the town. He says there has never been a school here. Sangin district was perhaps the most dangerous and deadliest for all sides involved in the war in Afghanistan
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We travelled by motorcycles house to house and village to village for many years. We encouraged people to send their children to school and invited them to peace. Penpath has travelled to such mountainous areas where no car could go and the roads will be very rough
@PenPath1
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Today we campaigned for girls school in Nangarhar province. Penpath’s female team in Nangarhar called on all the officials in charge to open girls school and university. Every Afghan female has the right to learn
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathNangarhar
#PenPathVolunteers
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د ولس غوښتنه
د نجونو ښوونځي دي خلاص سي .
په هاغو لېرو پرتو سېمو کې چې کلونه کلونه هېڅ ښوونځي دجنګ له امله نه و ؛ هلته دي ښوونځي پرانستل سي .
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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We asked this elderly man what was his wish for children in his village, he replied education and schools for all of them. That was exactly his only wish
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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New academic year began in warm climate areas, girls are disappointed and crying as they are not allowed to go to school. The world and Afg is silent. The nation is scared to say anything
We will fight this by establishing few secret schools for girls
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Children were disappointed, so we gave them books and stationery and encouraged them to work hard and assured them that girls will go to school too. Told them they will be doctors, teachers and penpath will support them
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
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For many years we have been raising our voice about girls education and it’s importance in various parts of the country. We were convincing people to send their daughters to school, education will empower you. There hasn’t been a part of the country that we haven’t campaigned…..
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Everyday campaign for girls education is underway in villages, we encourage people to send their girls to school and unite for this purpose. We will campaign until every girl has access to education and go to university and schools
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
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Today on
#DayOfTheGirl
we met with tribal leaders and elders in Spin Boldak Dist of
#Kandahar
. We discussed schooling for girls and for all girls to access education. They all pledged their support for our campaign and they will support us in raising our voice for girls education
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Penpath mobile team on motorbikes travels to villages and distributes books, stationery and learning materials. As soon as the children see the motorbikes from afar they get so excited and run towards them to get their books
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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Every girl has a dream of being educated It’s the dream of every parent for their daughters to be educated. In a society girls educating is very significant as these girls would be mothers tomorrow and will educated their childrenPlease open girls schools
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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My father was my first teacher as he was the founder of schools in our area
@PenPath1
is an initiative dedicated to his work. My mother is my teacher and role model and despite being imprisoned and receiving numerous threats she always encouraged me and insisted on our work for..
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Today’s decision is unfair and unjust, we have been trying so hard to find alternatives to schools for girls. Initiatives such as online schools and home schooling but this will not be long term solution. Girls should be allowed back in school
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#Afg
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pics of my trip to Brussels where I had great meetings with Mr
@EIPKeating
Ms
@hadjalahbib
Ms
@borgen_siri
Mr
@WiegandEU
and Ms
@PAMPALONIPAOLA
The meetings were very fruitful and we discussed the work of
@PenPath1
I urged them to prioritise their support with the education..
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Closure of girls school in Paktia is unfair and unjust. This is girls human right and closing them is an unfair decision. We strongly condemn this decision and urge the authorities to open all girls schools
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#SupportPaktia
#LetAfganGirlsLearn
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Every day, morning, evening we receive messages from desperate people eagerly asking when girls schools will open?!
I always give them some sort of hope that yes schools will open and for them to be patient. This is our right and till when we should wait.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
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We visited the rest place of Malala Maiwandi the famous heroine of Afg history. She won a battle from English in 1880 and she was leading the battle.
Afghan women used to be part of the struggle and fight for Afghanistan’s independence. We prayed for her souls and prayed that ..
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Nargis is from Kapisa province, Tagab Dist. She is in year 3 and wants to be a doctor in future. Few years ago Penpath signed a tribal deal with the locals to allow girls to schools. This is a clear outcome of that agreement.
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKapisa
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The past 5 months have been very exhausting, travelling everyday, campaign for girls education, problems, interviews, lack of electricity & internet, threats, sleeplessness, people’s agony, I could write a book about all these. But I love my country and my people and I should…..
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It’s not easy to carry the light of education in a country that’s darkened by war, to encourage people to educate their daughters. We fought with every difficulty for more than a decade but when I travel to any part of the country I see a school that in the past at some point …
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Today a journo asked me that why I hadn’t post anything on social media, told him I went to such a remote area to campaign for girls education that there was no phone and no internet. Journo asked me wasn’t that risky to work in such remote area. I said yes and I am willing to ..
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We met few people in Kabul who are worried about girls education and universities for them. They are even prepared to leave the country of their girls are not allowed to go to school. I promised them that we will ensure girls schooo is open as soon as possible
#GirlsEducation
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Someone asked me why I have chosen education My father and grandfather were politicians and had land My father used to say that neither money nor politics will help the country The only way we can develop our country and provide a good life for our countrymen is through education
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My 4 friends from Kandahar and 3 from Helmand have sold out all their belongings and are trying to leave the country, reason they are giving me is that they want their daughters to go to school and have a bright future something that’s not guaranteed for them in Afg. They are …
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Our campaign is underway from village to village and from house to hose. We invite people and promote education. We take our message to remote areas by motorbikes. As a result of these campaigns we provinces education opportunities for thousands of girls and boys those who were..
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Children in villages have so much talent and potential, they get so pleased when we distribute books to them.
@PenPath1
has been trying for years to get books to the children in villages in order to help them read and write
#ChildrensBooks
#PenPathVolunteers
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