by allison | Jan 27, 2023
The Garden of Flowers is thriving, with 20 young children coming daily to their cozy Montessori school and enjoying a hearty lunch to fortify them against the most brutally cold winter in Afghanistan in ten years. Many are not so lucky. All throughout the city of...
by allison | Jan 27, 2023
At the end of December, our teachers Fatima and Razia were among the thousands of other Afghan women banned from working, since they are employed by an NGO (MEPO, as well as our Afghan partners, HEWAD). For the next 20 days (Razia kept count!) they stayed home while...
by allison | Dec 31, 2022
Dear Friends, It was Christmas Eve when we wrote you about the shocking new Taliban restrictions banning women from working for NGOs, which includes the teachers for our project, the Garden of Flowers Montessori Preschool. Your global responses were so strong that we...
by allison | Dec 24, 2022
This email was sent out on the evening of December 24, 2022. Below it are the responses that have been coming in from supporters since that night…...