The following is an excerpt from a new article in The Meteor featuring one of our grantees in Afghanistan:

A group of teenage girls and young women gather in a nondescript room with pale walls, chatting and laughing. They have just finished their classes for the week and are about to head home. But they must leave one by one, so as not to draw any attention. If someone asks them where they have been, they say they were visiting the doctor. If they think someone might be on to them, the teachers move their classes to another person’s house. They leave their books at home. They must not be caught.

This is what going to school looks like for girls in Afghanistan today.

Our grantee has been running a network of underground schools reaching nearly 1,000 students, from teenagers to women in their 40s, despite the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education.

These classrooms are lifelines, but they depend on continued support.

It costs only $60/year to send an Afghan girl to one of these schools. The brave Afghans running these schools need your help to sustain this network, covering teachers, materials, and the quiet logistics that keep everyone safe. At a time when global attention is fading and funding is shrinking, their future depends on people willing to stand with them.

Read the full Meteor story: A Secret School for Girls

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Your support helps keep these classrooms open and safe for girls who refuse to give up their right to learn