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counted university student pursuing her dream to become a politician, a principal of a girl school educating the next generation. both stellar examples of women's progress in afghanistan, like when the camera band sees control in 2021, their lives came to a sudden halt. i still have everything finished, everything finished my man, how much i tried for my studies, for my exams and all for all of the girls. i couldn't stop myself to crying and then came the threat. and i got back with us on that when we get all your muscle not me from the corner in a duplex, special report filled over 4 years, one on one each, follow the tomato journey, the afghan would say, rebuild their shattered dream. far from home me when there is no days established. so trying to college is one of the 3 oldest colleges you see, i believe, around the 870 s, and they've preserved a lot of the old are on a cold november morning, man on l. e. r is touring the university of toronto, one of canada's top university, grading the cold. she's keen to find out what studies they offer here when some people study for international relations. can they also take a glass and visit? yeah, yeah, definitely. yeah. oh, she's excited to start campus life, but she's half a world away from everything she's ever know when you receive, if you go to college. oh okay. i kept on again. yeah. okay, melissa. yep. and towers troll. and though we have one or a building here, this is where i 1st met nanos in 2018. she was just 16 years old and a star student at, you know, she had a high school in cobbled akira, have a colleague with the school principal back then. girls were clamoring for the opportunity to learn every morning from 6 am about 7000 girls would file through the front gate. somewhere before this one, i'm not sure what would be my last claim to enjoy and go to walmart or not just join them the shit. all sudden, once the after the us led invasion of afghanistan in 2001 billions of dollars in a flowed into the country, education for girls with a priority. but manners and akira showed us how can missions at their school. we're far from ideal. we have a few buildings here. yeah. which ones are for girls? that one is simple. this son dash in time. you gotta that little kids saying that her, that building is for the buyers that building them further from the buy that buildings or from the by doors or we are seeing the building. these are all the my, all the building was or boy or might yes. where are the girl? that's those for the years. we don't have class for 330. we don't have boating and that's just for 2 years. even then nanos was acutely aware that the discrimination facing girls in her country. it's a problem because they're not the quote. and our country them how to quote their thinking that the boys are they have right. but the girls are they don't have right . they have class by the girls don't have class resemble my, my brothers are not did. they are boy, they have glass, my sister. i thing a more than 5 years, they did an outside in front of this song for under dare rain and had those days that there was ran. so they will love to you, they will not go on. they will not a study something they will come back. well, actually my mission when it we watched on as a storm blew in ending the girls classes for the day. despite the challenges and her responsibilities at home, manners had her life all mapped out. she would graduate high school, go to university, then work to improve the rights of afghan girls and women after i will get a job. after that, i have planned to go and know these a what i mean yet, english security know us us up to follow things on the politics and i will supply even for the guess. it's my wish, by the 3 years later, the sanctuary of say it'll show how to high school was shadowed. the attackers struck on an afternoon in may 2021. when the girls were leaving for the day, students to build on to the street, a car bomb exploded just meters away. then 2 more bombs. principal akila ran to the front gate when she heard the black. shaggy tell them to give me a moment on because i can show you tread docs. i'm sure you're not going to be there for just it was one of the deadliest attacks ever recorded in the capital. 85 people were killed. almost all of them. young girls, no one has been held responsible. must yeah. will her mother, he is both about us for the such a truth. have you back when i returned to a can stand 2 months after the blast. akilah was grieving for her students. their lives cut short by the attackers and i'm her son. k shall get a more. now will that that's right. i don't can shut it out on my application because i'm not sure the fish and p chef shall get my proudly showing me the new classrooms built just for girls and murals painted throughout the school to encourage them she was determined to carry on your is just the dates are coming and the big, big, big se teddy has no money. you our way keep going. keep going. then 19 and her 1st year at cobble university manaus was back at her old school to see the new classroom. but despite the positive changes, she was weary of the ever increasing attacks on women and girls across the country . the enemies, they attacked the schools they. they took the card that day university doing. there is not any bless. i think they're going to have a weird, a dark life again. this but she could not foresee just how dark life would soon become for the girls and women of afghanistan. the on the 15th of august 2021 akila was in her office at the school when her daughter phoned. and i will have some sort of upset that myself and my son will not let me begin with make one. i'm both on but you pull out a problem with the killer. rushed to protect her staff and students. hey, malkita mckenzie. hob's mom, yada must also put the usual last sequence, and i want to have it already myself from kim. whatever. jeanette, sean is important. tell them special give. they told me they would show them how to talk with and she would not harmonics issue the level with as long as i'm sure without them, but also they can border with on taliban on the streets. a couple panic broke out world, watched as desperate themes were broadcast and trouble with afghans scrambled to board the last military plains, out of the country before the foreign troops laugh at their 1st press conference. after the takeover, the taliban pledge to protect women's rights. what i had said, because without the sugar pop, i'm the with the, with the fund, amanda, how i like the me let the, the job we are poor had told him him and sort of by the crackdown started almost immediately. most women were banned from working force to cover their faces in public and soon girls were banned from attending secondary school. but a keela wasn't about to abandon her students. she returned to work a months later when school's reopened for boys and younger girls. as much as i like it, buffy. yep. what you'll buy is if you get it in the summer, i get the last your wish and we'll talk when i'm going value more. if one, i'm with him, what my mortal for cash for the was side of my social. i don't know. my don't. charlene, the whole not on behalf to him my them, me as i mean, would make fun with you that wouldn't matter or no way in the bathroom, but held out the lot with 2 months after the takeover. akilah gave a television interview calling on the calla band to allow the girls to return to secondary school. shortly after her relatives warned her that she was in danger. even before the takeover, she says she received threats, but almost purple food on sunday. or make one in your shop on mine is one of the most important message. meanwhile, manaus was too frightened to leave the house. i full of everything finished. everything finished. why you've man, how much i tried for my studies, for my exams and all for all the girls and it was, it was shocking for me. for my family. i couldn't stop myself to cry on a i can't if i can forget that day. that was so difficult. she too began receiving threatening phone calls from people who knew she'd been working part time for a women's rights organization. they know about my work with my activities. so that was the fear that i felt, and i receive some of the calls unknown coals vieno that your work, you work with. 40 enters as well. and and decorated and we know that they said i fall, i full fear. and i talk with my dad, the dad will, who are day the i know numbers hearing for the live mentors and akilah knew they had to flee. but leaving afghan stan was becoming harder by the day. as the weeks passed, they began to move home. jamal had to both of them fell on my mobile and no need to show them of them. some of them on the point of you, what sort of more up on the other side of the world in toronto, canada journalist brendon leffler was moved by their story. he decided to apply to a private sponsorship program where citizens can help resettle refugee we were hearing from kayla and from other people. i'm in a safe house and my neighbors are calling me telling me they're going around asking where i am. and so there is no time to waste when something like that happening people's lives were literally hanging in the balance. brennan, convinced more than a dozen of his friends and colleagues to help raise the $50000.00 needed to support nanos akila and her family for their 1st year in canada. so this is the financial profile form where you have to tell them, you know what your income was. and each one of the sponsors did have to do that. kind of, they filled out reams of paperwork and submitted it to the canadian government. so then you waited and waited and waited and waited and waited. yeah, i called and they didn't have it and i called back and they still couldn't find the application and we waited and we waited and nothing happens. so yeah, we decided to move them ourselves with the help of the nonprofit group journalists for human rights, he was able to add manners, akila, and her family to evacuation left. but man would have to leave her 3 sisters, 2 brothers and her parents behind. she was the only one with a passport. my daughter tried to get passports for all of us to leave, but it was possible because the passport office, they were closed and it's not possible. so we got together we did decided for me to leave. the taliban does not allow women to travel without a male guardian, phil akilah and her husband mussa agreed to take full responsibility for men off and take her with them from all the chunk of them. and they got no mama wishing more with it. they secured visa to pakistan. and early one morning a driver picked them up and they left the city. they love him by the law. and this is how much removal you know, i'm sure over them care chuck as nick, one on one more time. hold on is tolerable, has owned tricks. make one on. i can't blame me cheek what. what you told me after waiting for 8 tenths hours at the border, they reached the front of the que last month of the k. well, not that much could get here. show them order for shawnee and show them what more to prisoner when you more you know, issue them. over the following month, i regularly checked in with the keeler and manners. they had swap the dangers of afghan stan for the temporary shelter of pakistan, leaving behind everything they'd ever known for an uncertain future. it's been more than 3 months since they fled their homeland when i meet manners and akilah again. this time in his lum about pakistan's capital. oh i oh boy. everything. okay, well i to law you. this is the 1st time i've met a key. let's family. her husband mussa 20 year old daughter, tamara. 14 year old apple fossil and 8 year old alley. how are you excited if you it's so good to be here. so this is where you're staying on a show me. so this is your room. that's a hey, they've been stinging at this guest house, along with other afghans who have fled. they've settled into a routine akila begins each day with a walk through a nearby park. then they sit down together for breakfast. not a long time on the futon does not know watches ish. this will be a good laser of it to lay sonali as of the virus and for your hospital there was an i am for more mazda mazda mazda, the own one more moment, finalize push on button alone. she go oh my thank you, i'm fine. how do you this is your mom? no, you're pulling the n g o which helped them leave. afghanistan is covering most of their expense groups as the days go by, the family start english lessons on how you to prepare for life in canada revenue for better. well man, ours and the keyless, eldest daughter, amana are more proficient and ingratitude, akilah her husband and the boys. practice b a, b c, b, e, d e k. i missed it again, i do, i just want to know was some invoices your permission for my up you can get in touch, see how to get more me set him up to english. moving him because that has the condo . i'm not quite sure how to make one of my best on him. the one i'm by the color mater call us on hossa miss up. come on. you can push off. going to save us every day with my sister and my mother. she manners also wants to refine her language skills. she is desperate to resume her university studies and support her family. the relief of fleeing afghanistan has given way to feelings of home sickness. this is the 1st time she's been away from her tight knit family. every time when i talk to my mom to my family, i don't want him to worry about me. and i tell my mom to not worry about me. i am in a good class. i am with with good people. and don't worry about me because i know every time when i talk to my mommy, she cries and i don't want to cry because if i cry, she was great too again. so i don't cry because the strain of living in limbo is beginning to show for all of them. the model still don't get off the show number and they do off the hallmark off of bush all evil and bissell man check on it was live ok to push. well, put them simple, but i have submitted. i'm all you do have to be more do more with what you can ship . good morning. good. my. every week they speak to brennan in toronto. you're all looking good, lee. i like a shirt. i mean the i'm not sure that you like he likes garza mana, i've heard it was your birthday the other day. was that? yes, i'm sorry. yeah. yeah. it was yesterday. happy birthday. thank you. so i think, you know, melissa, there i want you to be here too. so we will meet you in canada. gosh, i hope it's not going to be too much longer for you to come there desperate for news about when they'll be able to go to canada. it's frustrating with we're trying to get our government to move faster and very soon the, the left problems, the taliban have renamed on a promise to reopen secondary schools. the girl women who dared to protest had been arrested and in prison was one of the most within pitch of the portal. because as i'm able to talk to my mom that's actually with us or the number of times on the ships, money about her medicine, trouble. i'm with my what is has a touch on the motion and i'm sure you guys are still on it or not a lot of them. this is the kids of, of this and i'd like to ship that so that we don't wanna be roughly the 100 i want them to about the problem is i drove up unable to work in pakistan. the only thing they can do is wait 2 days. they had to an afghan restaurant near the guest house for a taste of home. to put, i'm going to pick out of any tooth and i was i think the company, a couple of the company come up to the most nights after dinner. they walk to a nearby park to play badminton, football this simple freedom would have been unimaginable had they remained. and that's gonna stand with the taliban, have bad sport for women and forbidden them from entering public harm. but even still, they can't wait to start the next chapter of their life. more than to remind the wait here and not being aware of that when we will go to canada. it's difficult because like being far from this study and there is no home here. so i hope to come next week on one on one east. the news they've been waiting for. finally arrive one more which one of them in the front doesn't matter what you we don't want you to have a meeting with him. know me. it's not a student who my mother will had the same. it was really amazing. neil, for all of us, i for where they happy. i told him i said, well i'm but i'm almost like tomorrow for the show. more was mom. please give me something. nathan will be the kid then on the i a picture that i'm i'm a boy my we follow men of an akila as they confront the challenges and revel in the triumphs of starting new lives far from home. ah ah. a week you look at the world's top business stores, from global markets and economies to construction and small businesses to understand how it affects todd daily lives. counting the cost on al jazeera, smiling through the cold, tamara and 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