RASC News Agency: After the ban on girls’ education by the Taliban group, “Equality for Peace and Development” organized a vocational training program for girls deprived of education in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province.
Manizha Esmati, the head of this institution, says that the purpose of this educational program is to support, encourage and provide employment opportunities for women and girls deprived of education in Balkh province.
She emphasized that after a month’s training; these girls can work in the sewing department and prepare various women’s clothes in their neighborhoods.
On the other hand, a number of women participating in this program, criticizing the closing of the gates of schools and universities to girls, say that girls in Afghanistan are in absolute misery.
Expressing their satisfaction with the launch of this vocational training program, they say that by working in this sector, they can create entertainment for themselves on the one hand and help their families in the financial sector on the other hand.
At the same time, with the ban on girls’ education after the Taliban took control again, a number of students have turned to local professional jobs; but the number of girls who are engaged in professional work is small and a large number of them have suffered from mental and nervous diseases due to the ban on schools and universities.
At the same time, Care International says that the number of school-age girls in Afghanistan who are now missing education reaches 80% or 2.5 million.
This institution has said in a report that Afghanistan is the only country in the world where the education of girls and women is prohibited, and this institution has estimated the economic loss of banning the education of girls and young women for Afghanistan at 5.4 billion dollars.
