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Education Cannot Wait urges donors to renew Afghanistan program as film about Afghan girls’ robotics team premieres
Summary
At a U.N. briefing ahead of International Women’s Day, Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmin Sharif and film co-producer Elaha Mahboob highlighted a new movie about Afghanistan’s girls robotics team and urged renewed funding for a $30 million multi‑year program that supports girls’ education in Afghanistan through 2026.
Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmin Sharif told a United Nations briefing March 7 that 1.5 million Afghan girls are barred from secondary school by a ban and appealed to donors to renew funding for the agency’s Afghanistan program.
“Without education this film would never have existed,” said Kent Page, chief of advocacy for Education Cannot Wait, introducing the briefing and the film Rule Breakers, which opens in cinemas. The film tells the story of the Afghan girls robotics team and premiered alongside the funding appeal.
Why it matters: Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the U.N.-hosted global fund for education in emergencies, said it has invested $30,000,000 in a multi‑year, community‑level program in Afghanistan, and that 65% of beneficiaries in that program are girls and adolescent girls. Yasmin Sharif said the program has reached “over a hundred thousand” people, trained about 3,500 teachers in mental‑health and psychosocial support and social‑emotional…
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