When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat, Afghanistan, she saw many women suffer. They had no education and (36) or no medical care. Many died in childbirth.
In the nine sies she came to the United States. She became a professor and health consultant. But in nine ninety-two, she visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. What she saw (37) her to return to her homeland.
In nine ninety-five she started the Afghan Institute of Learning. The organization began by serving Afghan women and girls in the camps in (38) Pakistan.
At that time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan. The rulers would not let girls go to school. Sakena Yacoobi (39) her life to set up eighty secret schools in Afghan homes. About three thousand girls (40) these schools.
American-led forces ousted (驱逐) the Taliban from (41) in late two thousand one, after the terrorist attacks on the United States.
Today Sakena Yacoobi says her organization avoids the most erous provinces. It (42) education and health centers and traveling clinics. Each year, the Afghan Institute of Learning serves about three hundred fifty thousand women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sakena Yacoobi has received many (43) , including this year’s two hundred fifty thousand dollar Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. In accepting the award from Claremont McKenna College in California, she said: "Every day, I see the (44) of education, and that’s the (45) that keeps me going on."
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