Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels these women to focus on the country where the terrorists who took their husbands' lives were trained: Afghanistan. Over the course of two years, as they cope with loss and struggle to raise their families as single mothers, these extraordinary women dedicate themselves to empowering Afghan widows whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression - factors they consider to be the root causes of terrorism. As Susan and Patti make the courageous journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy. From the ruins of the World Trade Center to those of Kabul and back, theirs is a journey of personal strength and international
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DEH SUBZ, Afghanistan, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Razia Jan, Founder of Razia s Ray of Hope, has broken ground on the second ever K-12 girls school in Deh Subz, Afghanistan. Among notable attendees of the groundbreaking ceremony were the esteemed village elders: the same men who d once insisted Razia designate the school for boys, and now race their female relatives to the front of the line on registration day. The same men who d once refused to make eye contact with Razia Jan, but now hail her as The Mother of Deh Subz.
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.The same men who d once refused to make eye contact with Razia Jan, but now hail her as The Mother of Deh Subz.