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In the midst of war, increasing Taliban attacks on girls' schools, and attempts to take away their human rights, Afghan women and girls day after day stand up for their rights. Just two months after the November 2008 acid attacks on Afghan girls in Kandahar, the targeted girls had returned to school. They were not going to have their right to education taken away.
According to the UN, today some 6 million children in Afghanistan, 35% of them girls, attend school. Half of these school children have no school buildings - only tents, if they are lucky. Afghan girls and boys desperately want education - and many girls, their families, and teachers risk their lives to get it. We can and must help them.
Last week nearly 200 school girls and their teachers fell ill at two different school locations from what appears to have been a possible "poison" gas. Hundreds of schools have been destroyed or arsoned by Taliban militia. Teachers have been murdered. Yet, millions of girls and their teachers refuse to stop pursuing education. We can and must help them.
Please join our campaign for Afghan women and girls today. The Feminist Majority is working to pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act and to get desperately needed funds for education, health care, and occupational training for Afghan girls and women. Our work over the past six years has succeeded in convincing Congress to approve $235 million for desperately needed programs benefiting Afghan women and girls.
We are determined that Afghan women and girls who have suffered from 30 years of war will not be forgotten. Our campaign for Afghan women and girls needs your help so we can form Action Teams throughout the USA, continue to advocate, educate, and keep the issue before the American public. We need your help now to step up our work on behalf of Afghan women and girls.