The teachers at an Afghan midwifery college in a Taliban stronghold have dodged bullets through their office windows and seen their last training centre blown up.
MAIDAN SHAR, Afghanistan — But they kept working for the sake of the mothers and babies in their rural community.
“Our demand now is that the Taliban provide a safe and open space for women to at least be able to help other women,” the 52-year-old said. “It was hard work,” said course director Khatool Fazly, whose office walls still bear bullet holes. “There were battles literally every day.” For now, the new rulers have not imposed any new rules that would impact the work of the midwifery college.The biggest challenge facing the midwives, like many healthcare workers across the country, is that they have not received their salaries for four months because of Afghanistan’s dysfunctional banking system.
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