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Virtual classrooms organized in Canada offer lifeline to girls under Taliban rule
Toronto educators run weekly online classes and secret schools for Afghan girls, with more than 700 students enrolled and 92% of them girls, organizers said.
- Virtual classrooms and underground learning centers in Afghanistan provide a lifeline for girls barred from secondary education by the Taliban, allowing students to challenge the regime's strict restrictions on women's learning.
- Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban has imposed what international rights groups call 'gender apartheid,' issuing over 100 edicts restricting women's education; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reports 2.4 million Afghan girls are currently barred from secondary schooling.
- Toronto-Based educator Hazrat Wahriz runs a network teaching more than 1,600 girls in underground classrooms, while Murwarid Ziayee, senior director of Calgary-based Right to Learn in Afghanistan, oversees a virtual school for over 700 students, 92 per cent of whom are girls.
- Canada has provided more than $143 million to support education and health programs over five years, though independent organizations cannot fulfill the state's responsibility to provide universal public education for Afghan women and girls.
- Despite the regime's restrictions, Wahriz remains optimistic, stating, 'Drop by drop, it becomes a sea.' Students view their participation in virtual classes as a 'fight against the Taliban ideology,' studying math and history despite severe risks.
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Virtual classrooms are organized in Canada offer lifeline to girls under Taliban rule
On a recent summer on Friday, nearly a dozen students logged on for their online literature class. It was a group of mostly young women joining from different parts of Afghanistan, eagerly waiting for their turn to discuss a story they had read the week before.
·Vancouver, Canada
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Virtual classrooms organized in Canada offer lifeline to girls under Taliban rule
On a recent summer Friday, nearly a dozen students logged on for their online literature class. It was a group of mostly young women joining from different parts of Afghanistan, eagerly waiting for their turn to discuss a story they had read the week before.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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