For seven years, the suburban-based Zakat Foundation of America has run a girls school in Kabul, typically averaging about 100 students many of whom have gone on to study in universities. Today, the future of that school, and girls education in general in Afghanistan, remains uncertain with the Taliban seizing control of the nation.
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