Professor Sakena Yacoobi

BNC met the amazing Professor Sakena Yacoobi at the recent Peace Summit in Vancouver.  Professor Sakena is President and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an Afghan women-led NGO she founded in 1995. The organization was established to provide teacher training to Afghan women, to support education for boys and girls, and to provide health education to women and children. AIL is a groundbreaking, visionary organization which works at the grassroots and empowers women and communities to find ways to bring education and health services to rural and poor urban girls, women and other poor and disenfranchised Afghans. AIL was the first organization to offer human rights and leadership training to Afghan women and supported 80 underground home schools for 3000 girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban closed girls’ schools in the 1990s.  Professor Sakena is truly a remarkable woman doing remarkable things all over the world to focus attention on the urgent need for women’s rights, education and healthcare in Afghanistan and beyond.

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