Editor’s note: To protect her identity, we use the letter “A” to refer to the author of the following post. “A” is a junior at Pax Populi Academy. The essay appears with almost no edits to preserve the author’s voice. I was always an active and ambitious student. Before schools Read more…
Congratulations to Pax Populi Academy for completing in June 2024 its first year as a full-curriculum underground school for women and girls in Afghanistan! Over the previous nine months, a group of dedicated teachers, students, and administrators worked selflessly to respond to the massive need for schooling for female students in Read more…
Last year we introduced you to Z., an extraordinary student in Pax Populi’s Underground School for Women and Girls in Afghanistan. Here is what we said… “Z” isn’t her name or even her initial. Z., however, lives in Afghanistan, and she needs to hide her identity because she is a student Read more…
For over a dozen years, Applied Ethics, Inc. (AE) has been active in Afghanistan through our Pax Populi people-to-people peacebuilding program. Never have we seen anything so dire as what has unfolded since the Taliban takeover in August. Fearing that our work in Afghanistan could put our partners, friends, and Read more…
By Mrs Tinku R Gupta Learning had never been so wonderful until I started tutoring students at Pax Populi Academy. For years, my domain of interest has been Afghanistan. It has been amazing to meet eager youngsters who are keen to develop themselves not for their individual gain but for Read more…