Student discusses importance of women’s education efforts in Pakistan, Afghanistan – (Three Cups of Tea)

ozia Naseer’s mother is illiterate, like many of the women in the remote northern reaches of Pakistan where there are few schools and long-held traditions that prevent women from attaining an education.

Yet Naseer’s mother refused to let her daughter endure the same cultural barriers that inhibited her own life.

Breaching custom in the Azad Kashmir region north of Islamabad, Naseer’s family enrolled their daughter in a boys school.

There were no girls schools at the time, Naseer told a Missoula audience at a Sunday event sponsored by the Five Valleys Central Asia Institute.

The Central Asia Institute: http://matr.net/click.php?id=1383&url=https://www.ikat.org/

By BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/03/09/news/top/news01.txt

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