In Afghanistan, underground girls school defies Taliban after earlier efforts failed - The Washington Post

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In Afghanistan, underground girls school defies Taliban after earlier efforts failed - The Washington Post:


View Photo Gallery — In Afghanistan, underground girls’ schools defy Taliban: In Spina, a mountain village in eastern Afghanistan, girls attend an informal school in a family’s living room, defying a Taliban edict. The country has many areas where formal efforts to educate women and girls have crumbled in the face of threats from insurgents.

SPINA, Afghanistan — Every morning in this mountain village in eastern Afghanistan, four dozen girls sneak through a square opening in a mud-baked wall, defying a Taliban edict.
A U.S.-funded girls school about a mile away was shuttered by insurgents in 2007, two years after it opened. They warned residents that despite a new government in Kabul and an international aid effort focused on female education, the daughters of Spina were to stay home. For a while, they all did.

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