Dreams on hold: Afghan women and girls desperate to get back to class

'In this situation, I do not see my dreams coming true.'

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And like many of her peers, she is feeling a mixture of frustration and anger that her aspirations to study and work are being thwarted.Hadia, 10, a 4th grade primary school student, walks back from school through an alleyway near her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 20, 2021. They have also blamed the international community for cutting off aid, making it harder to fund the reopening of schools and universities for all.

"Those of us who went to university and also had jobs, were helping our families, of course nothing will come of us, because they say that whatever we studied in the last 20 years is useless," Hawa said.Hawa, 20, a third-year Russian literature student at the Burhanuddin Rabbani University , smiles as she talks to her sister at her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 23, 2021.

She proudly showed Reuters around her old classroom - a school manager on the premises that day allowed Sahar in.

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