Thread by @JaneFerguson5

1. TONIGHT on the @PBS @NewsHour: Imagine working 48 years to build a career as a top doctor only to be forced to give it all up in hopes to move to another country (where you are unqualified to practice) just so your daughters can get educated? #Afghanistan #Afghanwomen #pbsnews

2. That's the choice many professionals in #Afghanistan have to make right now. In 2019 we at @NewsHour profiled the incredible Dr Shefajo, a top gynecologist. "My daughters want to be doctors," she told me then. Now, her eldest is not even allowed in school as per #Taliban rules

3. Forced to choose between staying in #Afghanistan where her patients and the hospital she built from scratch are, and getting her older daughter into a classroom where she belongs, the Dr risks leaving everything behind to become unemployable abroad.

4. "I love both of them a lot. But in comparison, my career and me are one person, but my kids are three and they should have bright future. And because of them, I can leave everything.” #pbsnews #afghanistan #immigration #taliban

5. This is a vital story for helping people understand what it costs people fleeing war and repression when they become #immigrants. Many leave elite professions (they often cannot afford to get exams done to be allowed to practice here) and incredible careers...

6....sacrificing everything they have for their children to be able to have a better future. Watch the @NewsHour tonight for our story, a deeply sad follow-up with Dr Shefajo in #Taliban-controlled #Afghanistan. With @Framework_Media, @ahmedmengli, @TiloGummel and @alibomaye