Brave Young Activist Gharsanay IbnulAmeen

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Length: 0:28:43
Uploaded: 6 May, 2019

Recording Date: 5 May, 2019
Recording Location: New York NY and Denman Island BC.
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #03-19 Afghan Girls' Education by NGO-CSW New York and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #03-19 Afghan Girls' Education
Description: Gharsanay IbnulAmeen is the youngest recipient of the Woman of Distinction Award from NGO-CSW New York. In her keynote at a Consultation attended by hundreds of representatives from nongovernmental organizations around the world, she tells how she spreads support for girls' education across Afghanistan - training girls to promote the work, and bringing together the varied ethnic communities. The duo PoeTree performed after her talk.

Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Gharsanay IbnulAmeen, 22 year old Afghan education advocate; Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of PoeTree; Emcees Saphira Rameshfar, Azadeh Khalili

Credits: Recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. Thanks to NGO-CSW, New York, and to the US chapter of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television. Background drumming live from the event performed by Paprika from Brazil.

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