When the Taliban Banned Girls From School, SOLA Kept Teaching

Five years ago, the Taliban banned girls from the classroom. One school refused to stop teaching. In August 2021, as the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the staff and students of SOLA, the country’s first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, managed to escape to Rwanda, where they established a temporary campus to continue classes. Meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh, co-founder of SOLA, and…