The Wider Image: Dreams on hold: Afghan girls and women are desperate to get back to class
Hawa, 20, a third-year Russian literature student at the Burhanuddin Rabbani University (which was renamed by the Taliban to Kabul Education University), has tea with her sister, at their home in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 21, 2021. Like hundreds of thousands of other Afghan girls and young women, Hawa has not been allowed to return to her studies since the Taliban seized power in mid-August. "We are not born to sit at home," she told Reuters "If we can nurture babies we can provide for our families too. In this situation, I do not see my dreams coming true." REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "BENSEMRA EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES