Multimedia Week Video 3: Sahar Adish - The Power of an Afghan Girl’s Education

This video shows Sahar Adish, a resettled Afghan refugee, who talks of the power of a girl’s education. Sahar is now a 19 year-old pre-med student at the University of Virginia and recently received a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for a film she helped to make telling her family’s heroic story of escape from the Taliban. On November 7, 2007 Sahar inspired a crowd of over 750 guests at the IRC’s Freedom Award dinner, which officially kicked off a year-long celebration of the IRC’s 75th anniversary.

Resource Highlights
Educating Girls and Empowering Women: Gender and Post-Conflict Educational Reform in Afghanistan. Increasing access to school for girls is an important first step in making a society more equitable; this paper argues for the need to go beyond access alone to explore the role of education in actually improving the status of girls and women in the war-torn nation of Afghanistan. This paper was a finalist in the Jackie Kirk Commemorative Competition 2009. Jamie Vinson, 2009

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