VOA慢速英语 Sakena Yacoobi和阿富汗学习协会

　　Sakena Yacoobi and the Afghan Institute of Learning

　　Sakena Yacoobi和阿富汗学习协会

　　This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

　　When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat , Afghanistan, she saw many women suffer. They had no education and little or no medical care. Many died in childbirth.

　　In the nineteen seventies she came to the United States. She became a professor and health consultant. But in nineteen ninety-two, she visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. What she saw persuaded her to return to her homeland.

　　In nineteen ninety-five she started the Afghan Institute of Learning. The organization began by serving Afghan women and girls in the camps in neighboring Pakistan.

　　At that time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan. The rulers would not let girls go to school. Sakena Yacoobi risked her life to set up eighty secret schools in Afghan homes. About three thousand girls attended these schools.

　　American-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in late two thousand one, after the terrorist attacks on the United States.

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