Speeches Shim
Hamid Mangal is a young poultry farmer from Mango Village in eastern Afghanistan. Right after he graduated from the Tech-nical and Vocational Institute of Laghman in 2014, he set up a chicken farm with a first flock of 2,000 chicks. Things did not go well. Within three days, 300 chicks died. Worse, the surviving chicks got sick, and Hamid spent a significant amount on veter-inary services. In the end, he lost almost $1,300.
Gulshan* is from a conservative family in Ghazni province. In 2012, after she finished high school and passed the kankor, or university entrance exam, she decided that she wanted to pursue higher education in Kabul. She hoped to live independently and pursue a career that would allow her to support herself.
In Afghanistan, women remain under-represented in the workforce and face significant challenges, including persistent harassment, limited opportunities to education, and inadequate infrastructure or facilities.
Though marred by incidents of terror and violence, millions of Afghans risked their lives to vote in the Afghan Parliamentary Elections of October 2018. Among them were three million women in the province of Jowzjan, where they recorded the highest rate of women’s participation in the election at 53%.
The phenomenal progress of the media in Afghanistan is one of the most substantial achievements since the end of the Taliban era. In 2001, there were almost no print or broadcast outlets. Now, Afghanistan has hundreds of newspapers, television channels, radio stations, and web-based media outlets.
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