Trying hard to come out of the devastating war-afflicted period, Afghan women are now focusing on an image-makeover. With some help, of course.
After 25 long years of oppression, a dilapidating economy, a renewed vigor is taking over the women community with a Bay Area company trying to instill life into the dead world.
Students include widows with kids, young Afghan girls who comes all the way with enthusiasm in their heart as they want to learn all about the It skills.
Sonia too hails from Kabul, Afghanistan, who is making it a point to dedicate all her time to her students who are very much eager to move forward in life. Most of these women do not have anyone to look after them, since either their sons were killed during the bombings at war and the others at shootouts.
This initiative taken by the UN, the Afghan government, Cisco Systems and USAID aims to restore back the nation’s economy and their first step to achieve their target is educating the Afghan women.
In villages, which formed the first habitation of civilized man, rural sports grew out of sheer necessity. The need for cultivating individual strength for labor on the fields, the interdependence within the community and need of defense, joint defense against onslaughts of a common foe and dangerous animals must have given birth to sports like wrestling, running, jumping, weightlifting and such performing arts as of measuring strength by holding wrists, twisting hands. Kabaddi, which is another expression of the same spirit, has become the mother of games in Punjab.
