No to the Taliban

At the 2011 World Forum on Early Care and Education, Sakena Yacobi gave an inspiring presentation on the challenges of education in war-torn Afghanistan.  In her Ted Talk, "How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school," she discusses her continuing challenges, and major successes in providing education and health care for Afghani women (and now men). In her conclusion she observed...

"...education transforms people. When you educate people, they are going to be different, and today all over, we need to work for gender equality. We cannot only train women but forget about the men, because the men are the real people who are giving women the hardest time.  So we started training men because the men should know the potential of women, know how much these women have, and how much these women can do the same job they are doing....

"I want to share this with you, because of love, because of compassion, and because of trust and honesty. If you have these few things with you, you will accomplish. We have one poet, Mawlānā Rūmī. He said that by having compassion and having love, you can conquer the world. And I tell you, we could. And if we could do it in Afghanistan, I am sure 100 percent that everyone can do it in any part of the world."

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