Yelda, 12  Kabul, Afghanistan
Phil Borges

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Prior to the fall of the Taliban, Yelda stayed at home and helped her family make carpets.  She would now like to become a teacher and specialize in English.  She has enrolled in the Out-of-School Girls Project, a program designed to help girls ages 9-14 catch up on their education and rejoin the mainstream education system.  Today only half of Afghan children age 7 to 13 attend school and of those only 34% are girls.