Feb 19 2010 / Report from a Pashtun Teen
A YES alumna from Pakistan is featured guest blogger at Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times blog:
“Sher Bano is a 17-year-old Pashtun girl from Pakistan who spent last year as an exchange student in Evanston, Illinois, as part of the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program. She is now back in the city of Peshawar in the northwest of Pakistan, but is unable to attend formal school because of insecurity there. As a guest blogger, she’ll be writing about life in Pakistan from the perspective of a teenage girl who has spent time in the West.”
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