Thread by @YifatSusskind

For those feeling hopeless about Afghanistan, here's what you can do right now to help:

There's a kickass network of local Afghan women's organizations who've built a country-wide escape & support network for women's rights activists facing targeted assassination by the Taliban

They've created a route of safehouses for those women who can't get out of the country (which is most of them) but need emergency relocation. A kind of underground railroad. @MADREspeaks has secure channels for getting money where it's needed at the most local level.

Contrary to US media reports, Afghan women are not all "hiding in their houses." They're organizing. And they're amazing at it.

They're making longer-term plans for clandestine girls' schools, clinics, and ongoing women's rights work which will rely on the older generation's experience from the 1990s and on strategies developed by women living under ISIS occupation in Syria and Iraq.

But today the priority is to prevent women from being assassinated by Taliban fighters & protect girls from sexual slavery.

Money is needed for travel/fuel, food, medical care, VPNs & other tech to ensure secure communication, & to fund families willing to house these activists at great personal risk but who need funds to do so.

All of us in NATO countries need to absorb & act on the lessons of this 20-year catastrophe.

There's time for that. Afghan women are out of time and need our solidarity right now. People can support them through MADRE.org

https://twitter.com/MADREspeaks/status/1427409341313949697?s=20