In Scotland, Afghan women pursue their dreams of becoming doctors

[MsAmerica]

In Scotland, Afghan women find another chance to pursue their dreams of becoming doctors

Nineteen talented Afghan women, whose university education was cut short by the Taliban, now have a chance to fulfill their dreams in Scotland. They’re all aiming to be doctors and have been given places at Scottish medical schools through a program created in memory of a Scottish aid worker killed in tragic circumstances in Afghanistan 14 years ago.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-scotland-afghan-women-find-another-chance-to-pursue-their-dreams-of-becoming-doctors-2

That's wonderful. All the best to them.

if you educate a man, you educate a man. If you educate a woman, you educate a generation.

Yes!

I saw this a few weeks back. Such lovely news when the world is full of bad / scary news.

Such good news. Good luck to them all.

Congratulations to them all.

This is great scheme, and I wish them all well.

I also wish all the Afghan students well, but if any of you actually watched the video, I also very much admire the people here facilitating it.

Yes, saw this a while back. Great news that they will be able to continue their studies here and huge respect to the charity that had the tenacity to push it through. I hope they manage to stay on in the UK and practice for the NHS. I wish more Afghan women students were given this chance, and also that those professional Afghan women who have been here since 2021 are helped into work. I personally know a number of them, they are desperate to work but finding it so hard - many not helped by being moved from pillar to post by the Home Office these past 3 years.

It would be nice for them to stay in the U.K., but I believe in the interview, one said specifically that she wanted to go back and help her country - which I consider to be admirable, even if overly optimistic.

Welcome