Have you heard of the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women? It was started in 2002 by Paula Nirschel as her response to 9/11. What the Initiative does is pay travel expenses for Afghan women to go to college in the US. The Initiative asks the college to pay all the other bills. To date, twenty women have been accepted by ten US universities, Duke, Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke, Juniata, Kennesaw State, Montclair State, Roger Williams, Simmons, Montana and Richmond.
But the program is more than a free college education. The women have to spend the summer in Afghanistan working for an organization involved in rebuilding their country. Most importantly, the students must return to Afghanistan when they graduate. And, graduate they will as none has a GPA less than 3.5.
One person. One idea. At least 20 more people in the world who have been given an opportunity to make this a better place. Not a bad thing to think about on a dreary almost Spring morning!
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