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Help us support Manizha Bakhtari with her Daughters Programme and fight against gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
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The Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, has found herself in a bizarre situation since the Taliban took power: she represents a country without a legal government. Despite financial and logistical isolation, Manizha Bakhtari is defying the Taliban to continue her fight for the rights of Afghan women and girls as an ambassador. Through her Daughters´ Programme, she enables secret education to Afghan schoolgirls while organising political resistance against the Taliban as an ambassador. Under increasingly difficult conditions, she becomes one of the most important international spokespersons for the women of Afghanistan, true to her motto ‘peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice’.
The fate of 20 million girls and women in Afghanistan is increasingly being forgotten in the midst of the many dramatic events in the world. This film aims to draw attention to their plight. At the same time the aim is to support and effectively promote Manizha Bakhtari's Daughters‘ Programme (’Dukhtaran"), to grant as many girls as possible a concrete opportunity for an alternative education outside the school school system.
The Daughters' Programme is an independent initiative that does not receive funding from domestic or foreign institutions. Instead, it works with a sponsorship model on a voluntary basis. The sponsors support their Dukhtar - or honorary daughter - financially, through mentoring and emotional encouragement. The programme does not function as a centralised organisation, but instead creates a platform a platform that enables decentralised, independent growth.
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