a journey across the entire continent, a variety of culture work on this. so what we think is the movers shake of visionaries and made when by the, the meaning of modern africa. this is that from eggs on d, w. with here watching d w news, asia coming up today, one year after the taliban seized power in afghanistan, we take a closer look at girls access to education. the government is permitting some schooling, but only up to a point, and other children are in even more dire circumstances facing the prospect of starvation and illness. ah,

i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. is the one year anniversary of the fall of kabul, afghanistan to the taliban. since then the country has faced economic chaos. political fundamentalism and the forced exit of half the population, women and girls, from many parts of society. somewhere from 850002 about a 1000000 teenage girls are missing out on high school education, which will have big consequences on the potential and prosperity of the country. dw sandra peters. mon reports from couple, oh, these go so hungry for the education they get. it's are going to high school in cowboy. they have big plants. who of you went to be a doctor, raised your hands that these plans may end of his dreams. although they are only 11 or 12,

this is their last year at school. the taliban are allowing only very few goods to study beyond great 6. the leadership has effectively bent secondary education for girls. these limit emerett as the taliban called their government. once to enforce agenda, segregated society where teenage girls and women mainly stay at home. hello, lena flat. i will try my best to continue with my classes here. but i asked the slammy camera to open good school, still great to algebra for that we can study properly. again, it doesn't fiddlers that am not the specials. please visit us about that. i'm sad. i ask our government to open schools so we can all study the rights of women and men should be equal, but does better robasho am i mother? this used to be a place of learning for more than 8000 girl these out of the now there are only 2000 students in grades 7 to 12 are at home. the teachers keep going, but everyone knows that when the girls finish this great,

all these would be doctors will be banned from school. well, oh tough. some of them are in the i feel for the future of our children. i feel that leave will be as in literate in the future than others. i and then other a country without education does not have a future. i mean, the future of all of one's lives in the hands of these denito ac is rather says, my show good. before that i had to tell my students, you can't come back here until as a new order or in tom. why are you taking my students out of class? i should omero since nicholas. you pass along. we take that question to the taliban, made history for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. that's the ministry responsible for social behavior to fit with a taliban vision of islam. delaware, the spokesman mirrors many other answers by only offering any bass if ansari loose

for them. that'll dollar somebody hammer, hobbits it over there. definitely some problems for the grades after class 6. live, but you need to ask the ministry of education for specific. so the issue will not last forever on that. i hope it will be resolved soon. that will be islamic emerett . i was thinking about it that said up has been out of school for 2 years. first, due to corona, then the taliban, the 16 year old study set home alone induced emily. man. i miss being with my friends, i miss drawing and studying with them by marriage. i also miss being that might be charles during exam, so i missed them all. my biggest hope was to become a doctor. now, my biggest hope is that my school will start again. her oldest sister, fresh day as a teacher, she still works teaching little boys. she understands sad, duff's desire for schooling, but can do little to cheer her up. i me have it. i had

a body commissioner can work every time said of. here's the news that schools remain closed for girls. she gets more depressed. she cries, at least once a week had she sits with a bleeding heart asking why the school is not opening. i can't i finish grade 12, michelle myself. it was the monday of kind of stance. little girls are still in school, but despite domestic and international pressure, the taliban won't let high school girls continue their education. currently. that lease nearly a 1000000 futures hanging. oh, we have d w very own was lot had shot net, see me head of the darian patched, ho service. joining us from bon. oh, was that taliban enforcement of education has seemed pretty an even are there pockets of the country where teenage girls are able to learn? well melissa, unfortunately this is not the 1st time african women and girls have been barred

from education during the ninety's during the taliban. first rule, all girls had been forbidden from going to school back then underground schools were set up all over the country and girls would meet up secretly to study. and we're now seeing that a similar strategy is being used. some of the women teaching them have undergone does the same restrictions when they were young themselves. so girls are still learning, but they're doing it privately and shut off from the other outer world. ah, you asked about pockets. i have to stress that there are indeed still regions and provinces where there are a number of girls that can still go to school after grade 6. it depends on the governing taliban group in their stance on girls education, which might differ from the overall rule or the, the, the rule of the supreme leader. so what has been the punishment? i wonder for a girls who've sought this informal education, whether in a private home or as you say, an underground school. so the most bizarre thing, in my opinion,

is that not the girls themselves are being punished or they might be punished. but the, the general punishment is to punish brothers and, and fathers. so male, family members, which is quite an effective because obviously the male relatives in a family will do everything to hinder girls from, from, from finding and seeking education. and do you have a sense? i know it's just been one year and there's so much uncertainty, but do you have a sense of whether things might change for the better on the education front? because you mentioned that there seems to be some pockets, some places where the person in charge thinks it's not too bad to allow girls to go to school. well, it looks like and is becoming more and more obvious every day that the taliban are not like a group that is completely homogenous on,

on all issues. so they are divide it especially when it comes to, to the, to the, to the issue of girls education. because i mean, it's pretty obvious, but it's a number of taliban on also see that the future of millions of girls also has an effect on the country's economy as well. and in fact, it's also against the, the, the, the pillars of islam, which islam tells afghan and tells all women and all girls to, to, to, to educate themselves and units have just published a statement that clearly states that depriving girls in afghanistan of the right to education has had a divest devit devastating effect on the country's economy, which is already on the brink of total collapse. so closing the education doors to girls has cost a 2.5 reduction in afghanistan's g d p, which is a huge and very quickly um, what is the distinction that some of these guys men are making when they allow

girls to go through primary school and then stop at secondary, what is scary to them about secondary school education that they say, this is the stopping point. it's pretty complicated to melissa. it's not so easy to, to explain and a few sentences. but i mean, puberty is one thing. so as soon as rim, as soon as girls reach puberty and become women, they want women to stay at home. so i think this is the most obvious. but then also we have to think about the overall effect and long term effects that has on afghan society and, and, and, and hindering girls from getting education, hindering women from gauging, getting in education. we'll also keep the obedient in a sense. so i think this would be my short answer to this was that thank you so much for addressing that. it's a question that i've been, frankly wondering us for some children. however, the problem isn't even access to education. it's more dire in parts of the country,

families are starving, and parents are faced with the impossible choice of selling one child to feed the other children. i mean, how do you even pick, here's the story of just a few of the people impacted. far from afghanistan's capital kabul lives, maria, she and her 4 children are hungry. she is already given away to sons and sold one daughter for around 208 to your rows. gone is pay that got that. i couldn't feed them, couldn't provide that clothing. i was unable to buy food and cover the expenses now for children with me. i do laundry, bake bread and work as a maid in order to make ends meet appeared america. since the death of her husband maria has had to make it alone. her story is all too familiar to many parents in dire need of help. i am out of sala. my daughter was 7 years old. mobile bro, from i sold for 70000 of danny's law. just so around. 750 euro's larva will. now

i'm dying of starvation thought there, but i had to sell my little girl with my children would have died of hunger to butcher. i have 5 children, lot of work. i sold one to phoebe or the fall on will. yeah. give over of them on which on the since the taliban re took power a year ago, afghanistan has become increasingly impoverished. those bearing the brunt, 1st and foremost, are children. when it comes to child trafficking girls a more valuable than boys, some a married off extremely young, others as sexually abused and sold for the same reasons to afghanistan's neighboring countries. boys are also sold abroad. they're of interest to the taliban and other extremist groups that indoctrinate them from an early age. i have that said that to be stanford where, coma, unfortunately, that the poverty became more severe and with the war accelerating, humanitarian aid was reduced. tathina, on the other hand,

with changes and transitions in the country i'd twist. galveston was slowed down in the me all. mel. this factor increased the poverty amongst families, particularly the displaced families in the habit for and forced people to still be children, kidneys, for, and their body. you have good, good as i, but on a holiday. ab fuqua, most families don't escape poverty even by selling their children. at children's hospital near her province, young mothers queue to have their severely malnourished children treated by the doctors. they tried to strengthen the children with high calorie energy packs. oh, the situation is deteriorating in this country and especially children are suffering hot break. so it's the right time for the humanity in community to stand up. and steve, the people above that is done providing for the many internally displaced persons

remains difficult for the country itself. hardship is growing and the greater the poverty, the greater the danger for the children. but back at the same time, tomorrow. until then. good bye. ah, with 2021. afghanistan. the taliban take power. and the humanitarian catastrophe begins. women violently oppressed, abject poverty becomes everyday reality. how do people in afghanistan live today? insights report, background stories on all platforms, brittany, by d, w. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list.

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