meeting marzia after longtime. yeah, based on the recommendation that i should talk about my personal life and challenges and achievements and still the challenges we are facing, so i will try to be limited. as an afghan woman i started my work for social justice and well being of the people in afghanistan when i was doing my masters classes. by establishment of a network called -- [inaudible] that we could provide help and support for those women living with hardship. we started our work with basic needs. that's better to teach them the way of life proper way to continue instead of giving them something are asking people to help us. so that's why we put the name of noor. noor means like. we wanted to the light of education. we started our work from three chance after the issue of 9/11 reached to kabul. and even part of -- was not able to establish office. we were already there to start our work. and we start our work from the most -- [inaudible] today i'm very happy we could, through our efforts we provided letter

she is joined by two of the women profiled in the book, afghan judge marzia basel and women's education activist jamila afghani.