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 This is mighty nice of you,  @jack. You could have done anything with it, some buy over lands in Hawaii I heard, but you decided to help people in some of the most difficult situations ❤️

A friend of mine is a former mayor of Kabul and girls there are struggling so much as they are banned from education and treated as commodity in recent times. Just a few yrs ago prior to Taliban reign, some were in Cambridge discussing various growth and entrepreneurship initiatives and one I remember was on mobile libraries esp for the outskirts to bridge culture and language gap. Now some live in exile, while others in extreme fear. It takes strong men like you guys to appreciate and liberate smart and strong women. I’ll pass this on to him, I'm sure it will give him some hope in helping his people. And hope is a precious gift. 
 
 According to the spreadsheet he has donated to LGBTQ groups. 
So they are probably helping those persons. 
Right? 
 That’s a bleak situation there indeed and its off the radar without much information being available do you know if there is a geyser fundme page for those girls or something similar or do you some hashtag you follow in here? 
 i don't know if there are many things that is done against the taliban's wishes publicly as it would result in executions of self and family but i spoke to my friend - the university he teaches in (in exile) and many on the ground  work on this mission of helping girls and he thinks this might be something that they can study more and try. I think Afghanistan is largely forgotten post Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Palestine. Its easy for the world to shift focus based on hype, but its real people who get left behind.