Editor’s Note: This narrative was written by a 14-year-old Afghan girl living under the education ban. It appears with only minor edits for grammar and clarity. I am a brave, courageous, beautiful, and modest Afghan girl, but with a broken heart and broken wings. With high hopes and many wishes Read more…
Since April this year, I have had the privilege and honour of working with Shabnam Manati, a young lady from Kandahar, Afghanistan. I meet Shabnam twice a week, and we spend about an hour to an hour and a half, learning English and exchanging beautiful notes on life lessons, together. Read more…
By Kirthi Jayakumar From where I live, Afghanistan isn’t too far. And yet, my knowledge and understanding of the nation and its painful narrative came from books, films and conversations – some of which were skewed, some of which were purely factual. Nevertheless, it soon became a dream to visit Read more…
I joined Pax Populi in October 2015 to teach English to Afghan students. Kirthi Jayakumar, Pax Populi’s regional coordinator, connected Jami and me with an email to coordinate our schedules. In response, I sent him a polite, “How are you, Jami?†He replied, “I am fine and happy.†His answer Read more…
As 2014 draws to a close, Pax Populi would like to share with you a couple of ideas expressed to us by an Afghan student in the Pax Populi Tutoring Program, Ghulamsakhi Tanin (or simply “Tanin,†as he is called). Tanin is a young man from the Afghan province of Bamiyan Read more…