Although their requests to reopen educational institutions in the country for the past two years have not been accepted, the organizers of the initiative said they will continue campaigning until girls are allowed access to education.

The campaign for girls’ education in Afghanistan was launched as a national plan, and will continue until the doors of schools and universities are opened for females, said cleric Fazl Hadi Wazeen.

For more than 650 days, since the closure of schools for girls above the sixth grade, Afghanistan’s female population faces an uncertain future.

Setara Ghaza is one o the students afected and expressed: “If we don’t study, it is clear that in the future there will be neither good doctors nor good teachers in our country”. We ask the Taliban to open the doors of schools for us. We want to study and serve Afghanistan.

Although this issue provoked a wide range of national and international reactions, so far there has been no news about the reopening of educational institutions.

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