We cannot under any circumstances submit to the Taliban's vision for Afghanistan. It means continuing to educate more Afghan girls, - Shabana Basij-Rasikh

I've borrowed a stone from the airport. I need to return. I spend every waking hour preparing for it,"

What struck me the most, was living in a society for the first time in my life, where girls had no concerns whatsoever that their freedom to attend school could be taken away from them at any time, which is something that every single Afghan girl who's lucky enough to go to school lives with,"

It made a point to re-evaluate our responsibility towards the SOLA students, family, and staff and we knew that it was going to be increasingly irresponsible to operate as the only girls’ boarding school given the increased insecurity and unpredictability of [the] political situation in the country,”