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Imagine where there is no chess team and this is the school...
Last edited Fri Oct 5, 2012, 10:32 AM - Edit history (2)
“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.” - Epictetus
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Ali Aqa lives in Bamiyan Province near Band-e-Amir. His family is poor, his clothes used, but this 15-year-old isn’t deterred: He plans to be a lawyer. Childhood memories include Taliban occupation of his village in Bamiyan.
“They burned everything, even my school,” he says. “I pray to God no regime comes like that again. After seeing my picture of him in the National Geographic article on the Hazaras, many people wrote to me who would like to help him. ImagineAsia is working to ensure that he also receives a college education.
“They burned everything, even my school,” he says. “I pray to God no regime comes like that again. After seeing my picture of him in the National Geographic article on the Hazaras, many people wrote to me who would like to help him. ImagineAsia is working to ensure that he also receives a college education.
Ali Aqa, Bamiyan Province
“The Hazaras are producing the most enthusiastic, educated, forward-looking youth, who are seizing the opportunities provided by the new situation.”
- Michael Semple, Deputy to the European Union special representative to Afghanistan in 2004 – 2007.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/afghanistan-hazara/mccurry-photography.html
