Photo credit: Save the Children   It’s education, not guns that transform a society, says Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, founder and executive director of the Afghan Institute of Learning, an Afghan ...

Sakena Yacoobi, founder of the Afghan Institute for Learning, is a role model to hundreds of thousands of young women and girls in Afghanistan. After the Taliban closed girls’ schools in the ...

FILE - Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. A U.N. report on Monday, May 8, 2023 condemned the Taliban for their harsh rule ...

Two weeks ago, while attending a philanthropy conference at Google's headquarters, she met former President Bill Clinton. Two years ago, she visited the White House to speak with President Bush ...

Yacoobi is the executive director of the Afghan Institute of Learning in Herat, Afghanistan. World. Rights For Afghan Women Improving, But Fragile. December 2, 2012 8:00 AM ET.

DENVER (CBS4) - As thousands of Afghan refugees make their way to Colorado, one nonprofit will play a key role in helping them start a new life here.The Spring Institute For Intercultural Learning ...

Afghan Institute of Learning, in Kabul, which works to restore education and health programs and empower local leaders in Afghanistan, $480,000. Benetech, in Palo Alto, Calif., which uses technology ...

The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), which she founded in 1995, now reaches 350,000 women and girls annually with programs that extend from preschool through university. In addition, men and boys ...

No one has done more for Afghan women and children than Sakena Yacoobi. “Lessons in Courage,” was the title of a spring 2010 article SSIR ran about Yacoobi, and her continuing courage in the face of ...

For her efforts empowering Afghan women and children through education, Sakena Yacoobi received the $1 million 2013 Opus Prize Award in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday. “On behalf of the women of ...

Sakeena Yacoobi on her work helping to bring education, health care, and human rights training to more than 350,000 Afghan women and children each year. » More on the Afghan... A list of our sites.