Ashamed to say she lives in a tent

AFGHANISTAN: "When my classmates ask me about my home and my parents, I don’t tell them that I’m living in a tent. They wouldn’t understand. They would mock me instead," says 13-year-old Salima.

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Education is much more than ABC

NIGERIA: No one needs to force the children in Maiduguri out of bed in the morning to go to school or to do their homework in the afternoon. If you have a place at school, then you can also dream of the future.

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Education is much more than ABC

Salima, 13, is the only girl in the settlement who is going to school. She is a self-taught and have learnt the Alphabet from her father. She has taken the entrance exam and have been succeeded in going to fourth grade.
She is a very courageous girl and dreaming for brighter future. She has fought her father to let her go to school and now she is advocating for other girls in the settlement. she has already started teaching some of them, including her sister. Slima wants to be a doctor.
“Many of my classmates are asking about my home and my parents. I didn’t tell them that I’m living in a tent. They can’t understand me and will mock me instead. I’ve to study twice harder as them to show them I’m not weaker than them.”
Salima has also made a snowman in front of her makeshift tent to make the rest of the children happy. Photo: NRC/Enayatullah Azad

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