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Pashtana Durani
Pashtana Durrani is a social and political rights activist and the founder of LEARN Afghanistan. In the 1990s, Pashtana Durrani’s family fled Afghanistan to escape the civil war and the Taliban control happening at the time. Pashtana was born as a refugee in Pakistan and grew up in a refugee camp. As a child, she attended school in the camp and in 2001, a school specifically for girls opened in her community. When Pashtana was a little older, she traveled to Kandahar, Afghanistan to meet her relatives. These relatives could not afford for the boys to go to school and it was not safe for the girls to travel to school. However, Pashtana noticed that her cousins were learning things, such as how to speak Hindi, from television. This sparked her interest in using technology to provide education for those who don't have access. This revelation and new-found passion led Pashtana to found LEARN Afghanistan, an organization dedicated to innovation in education with a focus on women's rights. She has enrolled more than 500 girls and is committed to doubling the number and building community centers in rural areas and urban slums where children can learn. For now, her focus is to provide support to war-affected families in Kandahar. Thus, she partnered up with Aseel, to raise funds and help those people.