Farckhunda Arso – Radio presenter
There were times when Farckhunda wanted to stay home and accept the classic role of Afghan women.
Her father, however, had other plans for her. He made sure she received a good education and
encouraged her to play sports. Today she is 21 years old and Farckhunda has a degree in linguistics.
She is a radio sports broadcaster and plays volleyball for the Women’s national team in Afghanistan.
Najiba Ayubi- Executive Director of Public Media Program (TKG)
Najiba Ayubi is a writer, journalist, media manager and press freedom activist. She is the Director of Radio Killid
in Kabul, Herat and Jalalabad. The Killid Group (TKG) is an Afghan public media group made of eight local Radios
and two weekly nation-wide magazines,The Killid Magazine and Mursal, exclusive women’s weekly, established
by the Development and Humanitarian Services for Afghanistan (DHSA) in 2002. She says: “Women in media are
under stress from the public, their families, even other women opposed to seeing them in the media. I prefer to award
women at work and create a labor-friendly climate, such as a kindergarten in the workplace. ” (www.tkg.af)
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Hasina Safi
She is Executive Director of the Afghanistan Women’s Education Centre (AWEC), and the head of the
Afghan NGO delegation. Afghan Women’s educational center was established in 1991 by a group of refugee
women in Pakistan whose children had problems with education, and today it is the leading women organization
working in more than 17 provinces of Afghanistan, the mission is women empowerment and self-sufficiency from
literacy to advocacy. She believes education is the key solution towards the sustainability of a nation.
(www.awec.info)
Zarin is director of the “Al-Fatah School” in Kabul and has been working 29 years in education. The school was built
by the Russian occupiers in 1986 and has long beenreserved for the children of Kabul’s elite. Today, the Al-Fatah school
with about 8,000 pupils, aged between 6 and 18 years, one of the largest girls’ schools in Kabul. Zarins main concernis
following way: “The progress in Afghanistan depends on the education of women. That’s why I encourage my students
to educate themselves and get married immediately”.
Karima Salek, head of the Society of Afghan Women
Karima Salik has managed the Kabul Women’s Garden for the past three years. The garden is now in the midst of
a $500,000 face-lift supported by the United States Agency for International Development and CARE International.
The garden offers an oasis of freedom for Afghan women. The women worked at a clothes and handicraft shop at
the garden.
