2024: Afghanistan Newsroom – providing the fundamental right to education
In Afghanistan, Taliban restrictions deny girls an education and limit their career options.
The Afghanistan Newsroom is a collaborative effort of the Harbinger Academy and LEARN Afghan to provide girls in Afghanistan the fundamental right to education following the Taliban ban on them accessing secondary and higher education.
Through this initiative, students from LEARN who are part of the LEARN Journalism Club contribute to Harbingers’ Magazine. LEARN provides the necessary fiscal, social, and logistical support to ensure these students can participate in the Journalism Club, while Harbingers’ conducts weekly journalism and English classes to equip Afghan girls with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue journalism.
Against all odds: Afghan girls want to learn
Under the LEARN and the Harbinger Academy’ scheme, girls aged 13-21 attend weekly online classes in English with Harbingers‘ mentor Tamana Jamily, who took over from Sarah Hussain. The first cohort (2023/24) successfully completed the course, and the 2024/25 cohort consists of 10 students.
Due to safety and security concerns, given the current circumstances in Afghanistan, only the first names of the students are made public and sensitive information that could put them, their families or LEARN staff at risk, is withheld.
