"Saira Shakeeb Sadat wants her district, Khwaja Dukoh, to change. Surrounded by mud walls, the dusty hamlet in the remote northern Afghan province of Jawzjan is home to about 5,000 families. The isolation means security is good here, but little aid has reached the town....
"'There are a lot of limitations for working women everywhere in the world but especially in Afghanistan, where there are cultural restrictions,' she says. 'The only thing I have learned from the limitations of women in our society, is that if we have a goal and have self-confidence, we can get things done and fight those limitations...' She believes that one of the key steps in battling those confines is education."
The women of Afghanistan are strong and ready to work on improving their communities.
Photo of Afghans building school in Herat, courtesy of the US Agency for International Development and Wikimedia Commons.
