How do you keep more than fifty children safe and occupied in scattered locations, when the Taliban are searching door to door? The leader of the AFCECO Safe House program describes what it took. Sahar, a graduate of more than a decade of AFCECO programs and herself now a dentist,...
Qudrat’s story
As a kid growing up and raised at the AFCECO orphanages, I learned a lot from my childhood life and my friends who were with me at the orphanage. After my graduation, I was just finding out who I am and what I wanted. Importantly I found myself and began...
weeda’s story
2022 was a very bad year for me. But this year, one day was worse than all my days. On Monday, the Taliban came to our school. The principal of the school hid us so that the Taliban would not see us. After two hours, he took us out of...
Dunya Story
4 years ago I started painting but not academically because its conditions were not possible at that time. I was inspired by all the pain in my country. Those made me strong and also I thought I could use the world language which is art. I think with art, I...
Khadija’s story
It was at 10:30 in the morning when the terrified teachers entered our classroom and ordered us to leave the school quickly to go home. On August 15, 2021, my life and millions of other Afghans changed, and Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban returned to the Middle Ages....