i saw hundreds and hundreds of women with burqas sitting there. and their back was facing me when i entered, and i stood there, i said you got to be kidding me. what am i going to do with hundreds and hundreds of women? so i stood there i give them a message, and talked to them, saying that i'm here to help. i'm here to empower them. and so that they're not needy. they're not a charity case anymore because i'm very against becoming a charity case for the afghan women. so, you have to learn. you have to work and earn your money in order to raise your children, help your family and husband and everyone. so i left there. that's what encouraged me to put together an ndo, so i put together an ngo for witness doze especially, and -- widows especially, and i registered over 10,000 women, and in six years, then we did an assessment, and to be honest, in ten thousand women i had only 56 literate women. only high school i'm talking. high school, which is some of them were eight grade, nine grades, so that they were called literate. and so this is what happe

of women in afghanistan is one of the pictures from the last election, must've been 50 women all in burqa, all holding up a long piece of blue plastic covering this long line standing in the rain from all helping to hold of this plastic to keep the rain off of them comeau waiting to get in to the polling place to vote. i thought that was such a powerful picture. the determination. when you look at this evolving democracy of afghanistan, it is a picture that is so -- the one hand and the other hand, people get carried away talking about whichever hand they want to shake. it is all about corruption comeau all failed. on the other hand you have 7 million people that voted in the last election despite threats of violence. they came out despite being warned that ey could be killed or have their fingers cut off. there is an appetite for democracy which would be very difficult to put back in the bottle, and in a sense, for all the problems afghanistan is more democratic, no more corrupt, it has much more competition for corruption, but for democracy it is clearly more democratic than any one of

sometimes i go to the -- sometimes when you see the girls, you would see at a young age, they are in burqathey can't see the wall or -- the world or the beauty outside. do you think this is a life? the beauty -- the more you get knowledge, i think that is -- that is the most beautiful thing one person can have. >> maria, amazing story. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you so much. >>> next on "gps," from gun models to fashion models, why the maker of the world's most famous assault rifle is moving from machine guns to men's wear. really. when we come back. you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. but it's actually a triumph of predictive analytics. because of optum. through population health data, they provide insights so doctors and hospitals can identify high-risk patients. like me... asthma... potential hospital visit. so now thanks to optum, this asthma thing's under control. gravity not so much. this

muslims and i understand from other people who are interviewed about this that there are women in burqasnd his jobs all the time and they don't get asked to leave so i'm wondering if there was some bad behavior which caused the manager to call the police in the first place and that would be different than any level of discrimination. >> let's set the stage a little bit have any because one of the note was taking place, the women were in a restaurant, the restaurant has some policy where you can only stay 45 minutes after you finished eating and drinking and the women hung out a little bit longer then started taking video when they were asked to leave and if you watch the video it's a little obnoxious. what do you think? >> i used to live in los angeles so i've been to a cafc many times. i never noticed anything like that. let's be clear. certainly it is against the law to discriminate against anyone based on their religious beliefs and that would be their burden ápoint to prove that. you can't believe or allege that, that will not be enough. you've got to show that and show that through

it must have been 50 women all in burqa, all holding up a long piece of blue plastic covering the long line, standing in the rain. all helping to hold up this plastic to keep the rain off them waiting to get in to the polling place to vote. and i thought that was such a powerful picture of their determination. when you look at this evolving democracy in afghanistan, it's a picture that's so -- the one hand and the other hand, people get carried away talking about whichever hand they want to shake. it's all about corruption, it's all failed, it's all one thing. yet on the other hand, you have 7 million people that voted in the last election, despite threats of violence. they came out despite being warned that they could be killed or have their fingers cut off if they voted. there's an appetite for democracy which would be difficult to put back in the bottle. in a sense for all the problems, afghanistan is more corrupt than any -- more democratic -- not more corrupt. it's not more corrupt. it's got more competition for corruption. but for democracy it's clearly more democratic then any o