Educator and 2014 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Shabana Basij-Rasikh runs Afghanistan’s first boarding school for girls. She believes that educating and empowering young women is the first step in healing Afghanistan’s ethnic strife and boosting its struggling economy.
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