Split by the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education in Afghanistan, the sisters hoped to reunite in the US. But new ...

Last summer, as SOLA's high school students practiced public speaking, 60 Minutes listened to the first-hand accounts of the final moments they spent in their homeland and how much they value ...

This summer, I visited SOLA for the first time. While I was nervous as I boarded the flight to Rwanda alone, my fear evaporated when I arrived at the school, met by six girls, ranging from ages 10 ...

I took this picture in Qatar, back in the summer of 2021, at the midpoint of SOLA’s departure from Afghanistan and its arrival in Rwanda. It’s one of my students, a girl asleep on an airport ...

Inspired, in part, by a 1996 Christiane Amanpour documentary titled “Battle for Afghanistan,” Hakim decided to create secret schools for a new generation of Afghan girls.

Banned from school, adolescent girls in Kabul, Afghanistan share their grief and determination to get an education. The March 2022 announcement that adolescent girls in Afghanistan would not be ...

H ajera gave birth to her daughter, Sarah, in Kabul two weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan last summer. Hajera is 35 and worked as a government economist. She and her husband already ...

Nearly 300 young musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives as the Taliban took power. NPR caught up with them during their U.S. tour, ...