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Related: About this forumAfghanistan's All-Girls Robotics Team Desperate to Escape Country as Taliban Takes Control
https://gizmodo.com/afghanistans-all-girls-robotics-team-desperate-to-escap-1847492243Afghanistans all-girls robotics team, which made headlines in recent years for their inventions, is desperately trying to escape the country after the Taliban took control of the capital city of Kabul over the weekend, according to a report from Canadas CBC News.
Theyre worried about what tomorrow brings. They want to continue to be educated. They want to continue to be the future of Afghanistan. But its an extremely tenuous and dangerous situation for them, human rights lawyer Kimberley Motley told CBC on Sunday.
Motley explained that Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had been an amazing supporter of the girls, and met with them in 2018. Motley would like Canada to get the girls out of Afghanistan safely and presumably give them refugee status, something the country has promised 20,000 other vulnerable Afghans.
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Afghanistan's All-Girls Robotics Team Desperate to Escape Country as Taliban Takes Control (Original Post)
janterry
Aug 2021
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LetMyPeopleVote
(151,425 posts)1. Please help these young ladies
electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)2. Ohhhh, crap - I thought they HAD escaped! 😮
janterry
(4,429 posts)3. They got out
I posted this a few months ago
electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)4. Oh! 😄 I didn't notice the date. ty