Pen Path

A memory from 9 years ago, when I was university student. When I was going back home for holidays I would travel to areas where education system had lots of issues. A colleague told me that there are people internally displaced from Nooristan and currently living in Laghman under the sky.
The reason for their displacement is family feuds that resulted in many deaths on both sides.
They currently have no access to schools and education.
The next morning, early we embarked on tge journey without knowing anybody. We asked local people for these displaced and finally managed to find them.
They were a bit scared and thought their rivals are searching for them. We introduced ourselves and introduced ourselves and had meetings with the elders and tried to explain to them that they should live in peace and come to some sort of agreement with their rivals and for their children to access education.
We also suggested until the peace agreement takes shape their children should continue their education.
With the help of friends we managed to arrange for temporary schooling for these children. We also spoke to the tribal leaders that these rivalries will leave scars on children and their futures will be destroyed so they should stop that.
We should avoide creating conflicts in our societies

Today is the international day of volunteers, Penpath has established a foundation for volunteers in 2009 and provided education opportunity for thousands of girls, collected million books, reached millions of people in remote and war stricken areas to campaign for education. PenPath's volunteers have helped many people. Today 3200 volunteers are actively campaigning for education.

Unfortunately, the earthquake in Herat is a huge human disaster. The world's most oppressed and deprived people are under unexplainable difficulties. There is no international media to properly uncover the current situation to the world. In the other hand the people of this national is left alone have to deal with all this by their own. If the same earthquake with such a high level of damage had happened in another country in the world, then this news would have reached the most and would have been responded with help. It is unfortunate that our news is covered only through Afghan social media and Afghan media. We still hope that international assistance to Afghans people is very necessary in such difficult times of disaster. Do not leave Afghans alone.

Recently we travelled to 24 districts in the country to speak to elders and locals and discuss girls schools and to share advice and solutions. The whole nation is supporting the fact that girls need to go to school and their school to open without any delay. This is everyone’s wish

We are counting hours, mins and seconds for the opening of girls schools. The damage that closure of schools causes is irreversible and undeniable. We held meetings with locals and we will continue our protest if the schools remain closed.