Minggu, 02 Januari 2011

Kabul womens-only park reopens thanks to USAID

A womens-only esplanade that was bankrupt beneath Taliban aphorism and angry into a debris dump has a fresh life.The Women's Garden, an 8-acre haven in this country's capital, re-opened in November afterwards seven months of about-face and allotment from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).The esplanade gives Afghan women a abode area abundant copse assure them from the barbarous sun and they can ambit themselves from the hardships of activity and austere Islamic doctrine.Behind its walls, Afghan women acquisition the abandon and empowerment defective beneath Islamic or sharia law. The law, carefully activated beneath the Taliban, forbids a woman to go to a accessible esplanade after a macho escort. Many delay for the apprentice capitalism to formally abdicate the practice, but until then, the garden provides a different befalling for women to associate abandoned with added women.Five thousand blush rose bushes and 3,500 copse accept been buried by 220 men and women on area the Taliban had angry into a burghal debris dump.It was the debris can of the Taliban," remembers Karima Salik, who categorical a plan bristles years ago to abate the Women's Garden in the Shaharara commune that thrived for decades afore the barbarous administration took over.

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