'Right now, our girls do not have the chance to choose. But I believe one day they will.' BBC News Dari journalist Aalia Farzan explains why she is presenting a new TV show for Afghan children
I was born in the northern province of Takhar in 1996 – the same year the Taliban first took control of Kabul.
But I consider myself lucky, because in my province, girls could still go to school, which helped me to go on to become a journalist forI was able to receive the education many missed out on. By the time the Taliban left the country, I was in second grade. By 2003, two years after the end of the first Taliban rule, only 6 per cent of girls were enrolled in secondary education, according to the World Bank.
I feel responsible for girls in the whole of my country. I want to teach them that they can be anything they want to be. In a frantic rush to be evacuated, I managed to get out of the country and into London a week after Kabul fell. Some of my extended family members, including school-age girls, remain in the country., is so important to me. It sees the BBC World Service partner up with BBC Bitesize to offer Afghanistan’s children weekly lessons including maths, science, history and IT.
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