By Alma Begum* Through its home schools, Daricha School (called Maktab-e Daricha in Persian) seeks to educate young girls, mothers and elderly women, many of whom have spent a lifetime dreaming of literacy, reading, and writing but have never found the opportunity to realize this dream. Not only has Daricha

Since the Taliban took over on August 15, 2021, Afghanistan’s education system, among other deteriorating situations, has been severely impacted. In this backdrop, home schools have emerged as a crucial means of resistance against the Taliban’s illegitimate occupation. Stripped of their most fundamental rights and nearly erased from society, women