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| Afghan-American Woman Teaches Afghan Women Business Skills |
| 2004-10-06 |
| From BBC News She was a diplomat's free-spirited daughter who had travelled the world and was in Czechoslovakia meeting her father when news came that Russian tanks had invaded her homeland, Afghanistan. Mina Sherzoy, 43, remembers the time vividly in the winter of 1979 when the family decided not to return to a home invaded by foreigners. She was 18 and a graduate of a high school in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when the family began their exile. The family took a train from Prague to the German city of Frankfurt in West Germany and from there a plane to London. They flew on to California, which was to become home for the next two decades. In the US, Ms Sherzoy adapted quickly to a new lifestyle, working hard, marrying an Afghan man and looking after their two daughters. She worked as a drug store cashier, an attorney's secretary, and a systems analyst before ending up selling luxury homes in the San Francisco Bay area. In exile, she found success and wealth, a world apart from the millions of her countrymen struggling in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. ..... Two summers ago she and an American friend decided to take a trip to Kabul. .... During her three week stay, Ms Sherzoy decided it was time for her "to give back something to Afghanistan". .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #3 right here, lex, i think this is great, and too bad the rest of the 'ladies' don't read Rantburg! |
| Posted by: Querent 2004-10-06 12:39:11 PM |
| #2 More than 10,000 women have signed up with her - only 400 of them are literate Where the f*** are the western sister suffragettes when it comes to applauding and encouraging the remarkable turnaround in women's fortunes in Afghanistan? This story has been buried by the MSM, whose bleatings on Afgh are limited to opium production stories and "where's Osama?" |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-06 11:04:52 AM |
| #1 In the title, please change the second Woman to Women. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-10-06 1:36:48 AM |