Story
From literacy learner to literacy manager
As a native of Zabul province Eqlima Kochay was only a child when the Taliban seized Afghanistan for the first time in 1996 Years later despite the contextual and cultural restrictions on women with the support of her mother she was able to enroll in nonformal communitybased literacy courses to learn how to read and write Even today years later she still carries fond memories from that time Driven by her passion and interest for learning and education she was quickly the best of her class and able to support her classmates in writing and pronouncing that alphabets