Thread by @CrimeGirI

Maryam, 16, wrote:

“I wanted to become president of my country, not for position, wealth, or fame but to build my country and make Kabul as beautiful as Paris. But now I can’t even go to school.”

https://twitter.com/christinalamb/status/1556329771902144513

She added:

“Maybe you think somehow Afghan girls can live without dreams but among us are girls who want to be doctors, engineers, an astronaut ...

and for the last 20 years that your soldiers were here in our country you have encouraged us to think that we could be.”

“We are crying every day. But we still have phones and we read about England’s Lionesses on the football field and how proud you were. We had girls’ football teams too, you even sent people here to teach us, but now that is all gone, we could get in trouble even for watching it.”

Yalda, 12, who wants to be a teacher, wrote:

“We are not scared of Taliban. Every girl in Afghanistan has big dreams in her heart but we need help to get out of this darkness into which we have been plunged.”

“We, the disappointed girls of Afghanistan, request that the Taliban, people of Afghanistan, Afghan men and women across the world, politicians, world leaders, the international community, and the world to make this happen again.”

#LetAfganGirlsLearn

“We think this is a small wish and we don’t understand your silence. We know you spent a lot of money here and your own people were killed — are you just going to let that all be for nothing? You will not regret helping us — we promise you!”

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn