Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school
Sakena Yacoobi: Taliban'ın okulumu kapatmasını nasıl engelledim
At the Afghan Institute of Learning, Sakena Yacoobi provides teacher training to Afghan women, supporting education for girls and boys throughout the country. Full bio
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In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful.
Rahman ve Rahim olan Allah'ın adıyla.
in a middle class family.
5 yaşındaymış
when he lost his father,
a boy or a girl:
what I went through.
geçtiğimi tahmin edebilirsiniz.
finished my high school,
to help women and children.
doktor olmak istedim.
there wasn't a dormitory for girls,
but I could not go there.
fakat oraya gidemedim.
sent me to America.
beni Amerika'ya gönderdi.
I was completing my education,
with my family or with my country.
neler olduğunu bilmiyordum.
I didn't know about it.
when I listened to the news,
going on with my country,
I could not go there,
gidemeyeceğimi biliyordum
to the refugee camp in Pakistan,
were women and children.
kadın ve çocuktu.
or they were in war.
veya savaştaydı.
have no way to go anywhere,
genç bir bayan gördüm,
no place to even live.
yaşayacak bir yeri bile yok.
their father and their home,
as a 10-to-12-year old boy --
evlerine bakmak,
and their mother and their children.
annelerini, çocuklarını korumaya çalışıyorlardı.
what can I do for these people?
ne yapabilirim diye düşündüm.
What can I do for them?
Onlar için ne yapabilirdim?
It gave me a career.
Kariyer verdi.
getirebildim.
is education and health,
sağlıktı.
was banned for girls, completely.
tamamen yasaklanmıştı.
"I want to do this."
demek çok zordu.
gelen biri.
the trust in this community.
güven sağlamak zorundaydım.
I can be a teacher?"
olabileceğimi düşünürsün?"
"I will make you a teacher."
in his compound,
derslere başladığım zaman,
öğretmenleri yetiştiriyorduk.
we were giving teacher training.
human rights, democracy, rule of law.
hukuk alanında eğitim veriyorduk.
in Peshawar, Pakistan.
running to rooms and locking the doors
ve kapıları kilitlediğini gördüm.
ne yaparsınız?
biliyorsunuz.
you have to hold it together.
sakin kalmak zorundasınız.
and show strength.
göstermelisiniz.
into my office.
nine of them -- nine Taliban.
Dokuz Taliban.
you can ever see.
en çirkin insanlardı.
to have a seat and have tea.
going to drink tea.
of voice they were using,
you know how I dress --
bilirsiniz.
is banned for girls?
bilmiyor musun?
Where is the school?"
"You are teaching girls here."
"Burada kızları eğitiyorsun."
Koran, Holy Book.
if you learn the Holy Book, the woman,
eğer Kutsal Kitabı öğrenirlerse
and you know --
they started speaking Pashto.
leave her alone, she's OK."
sorun yok." dediler.
I offered them tea again,
çay teklif ettim,
poured into my office.
they didn't take me away.
to be alive, of course.
çok mutluydum.
çok mutluydum.
training during the fall of the Taliban --
eğitim verdik.
there is another story.
bir hikayem daha var.
education for 80 schoolgirls,
80 kız çocuğuna eğitim sağladık.
and continuously we trained.
yeraltında eğittik.
we went into the country,
kırsal kesimlere gittik,
that you can imagine.
eğitimini verdik.
with the outcome of my work.
memnundum.
and one bodyguard,
bir koruma
they blocked the road.
yolu kapattılar.
"We have nothing to do with you."
"Senle işimiz yok." dediler.
They said, "We want her."
"Onu istiyoruz." dediler.
"I can answer you.
"Ben size yardımcı olayım,
are yelling and screaming inside the car.
haykırarak ağlıyorlardı.
and I told myself, this is it.
Dedim ki buraya kadarmış.
and you take strength
inandığınız, yaptığınız şey
and whatever you do.
and you can walk on it.
devam edersiniz.
on the side of the car.
opportunity to have a job.
Peki ya biz?"
"I don't know."
"Bilmem." dedim.
we just hold the gun and kill.
They said, "We'll let you go, go."
dediler. Ben de döndüm.
I sit in the car,
"Turn around and go back to the office."
were supporting girls.
sadece kızları destekliyorduk.
o kadar.
Sandalyeme oturdum,
going on up north already.
devam ediyordu.
coming to get training.
all of a sudden, at this moment,
called me about a report.
rapor almak için beni aradı.
And I answered her.
cevap verdim.
What's wrong with you?"
bir şeyler ters gidiyor." dedi.
Saklamaya çalıştım.
she didn't believe me,
lafıma inanmadı.
you go next time, and you will help them.
onlara yardım edeceksin." dedi.
I went the same route,
and holding the rifle
that whatever I say, you accept it."
Ne dersem yapacaksınız."
in the mountain areas,
bilmediğimiz bir yere giderken
They are ahead, and we go.
önden ilerliyor,
transforms people.
eğitim insanları dönüştürür.
but forget about the men,
erkekleri bırakamayız.
who are giving women the hardest time.
bu zor duruma sokan erkeklerdir.
because the men should know
kadınlardaki potansiyeli görmesi
can do the same job they are doing.
erkekleri eğitmeye başladık.
training to men,
that was a beautiful country.
bir ülkede yaşıyorum.
out of their door without security issues.
güvende değiller.
Afghanistan we had before.
are working very, very hard.
çok çalışıyor.
They are training to be lawyers.
öğrenim görüyorlar.
doctors, back again.
reach their complete potential,
harika bir şey.
you can conquer the world.
can do it in any part of the world.
her yerinde yapabiliriz.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sakena Yacoobi - Education activistAt the Afghan Institute of Learning, Sakena Yacoobi provides teacher training to Afghan women, supporting education for girls and boys throughout the country.
Why you should listen
Sakena Yacoobi is executive director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an Afghan women-led NGO she founded in 1995. After the Taliban closed girls’ schools in the 1990s, AIL supported 80 underground home schools for 3,000 girls in Afghanistan. Now, under Yacoobi’s leadership, AIL works at the grassroots level to empower women and bring education and health services to poor women and girls in rural and urban areas, serving hundreds of thousands of women and children a year through its training programs, Learning Centers, schools and clinics in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Yacoobi is the founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private Hospital in Herat, the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private High Schools in Kabul and the radio station Meraj in her hometown of Herat, Afghanistan.
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