4. Years of dreams, hard work, all erased. Imagine, just for a moment, stepping into their shoes.

3. Living in the West, we hear about the Taliban’s atrocities against women, but we can never truly grasp what it’s like to be a woman in Afghanistan. Once full of hope, education & freedom, their lives are now confined to the walls of their homes: cooking, cleaning, serving men.

2. A brave female protester imprisoned & beaten up for speaking out; young girls in Kandahar who were stoned for pursuing midwifery; and a teenage student [relies on secret schools] who can only hope for a miracle: a day when the Taliban are gone.