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Coles Unbreakable Hope: Educating and Healing in the Heart of Afghanistan at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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This is the dramatic and gripping story ofDr. Sakena Yacoobi and her lifelong mission toimprove the lives of girls and women inAfghanistan. She has faced tremendous obstaclesevery step of the way as she set up women' shealth clinics and schools for girls. But even whenit' s dangerous and seemingly hopeless, Yacoobinever stops. Dr. Yacoobi has a mission, to help at least a few ofa lost generation of Afghan girls learn to read,write, and think critically, and she' s done this overthe years in tents, in schools, and on TV. Throughher organization, Afghan Institute for Learning, Dr.Yacoobi has built health centres, hospitals, and schools. She has trained nurses, sponsored cultural conferences, and run an orphanage. How Dr. Yacoobi achieved this in a country like Afghanistan is an extraordinary story. Yacoobi takes the reader into the mysterious heart of Afghanistan as she finds innovative ways to offer girls and women the education and health services that were so long denied to them. Yet now, with the Taliban in charge of Afghanistan, times are dark. Girls are forced to cover their faces and silence their voices in public. Schools and health clinics have been shuttered. But Dr. Yacoobi, impassioned and relentless, still looks for glimmers of light. Education can change lives, she says. So
This is the dramatic and gripping story ofDr. Sakena Yacoobi and her lifelong mission toimprove the lives of girls and women inAfghanistan. She has faced tremendous obstaclesevery step of the way as she set up women' shealth clinics and schools for girls. But even whenit' s dangerous and seemingly hopeless, Yacoobinever stops. Dr. Yacoobi has a mission, to help at least a few ofa lost generation of Afghan girls learn to read,write, and think critically, and she' s done this overthe years in tents, in schools, and on TV. Throughher organization, Afghan Institute for Learning, Dr.Yacoobi has built health centres, hospitals, and schools. She has trained nurses, sponsored cultural conferences, and run an orphanage. How Dr. Yacoobi achieved this in a country like Afghanistan is an extraordinary story. Yacoobi takes the reader into the mysterious heart of Afghanistan as she finds innovative ways to offer girls and women the education and health services that were so long denied to them. Yet now, with the Taliban in charge of Afghanistan, times are dark. Girls are forced to cover their faces and silence their voices in public. Schools and health clinics have been shuttered. But Dr. Yacoobi, impassioned and relentless, still looks for glimmers of light. Education can change lives, she says. So
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