This First Person article is written by Freshta Hemmati, women’s rights activist and Afghan journalist living in P.E.I. For more information about First Person stories, see the FAQ.
My family first fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took over Kabul in 1996. I was just a few months old at the time and spent the first eight years of my life in Iran.
As refugees in Qom, my siblings and I didn’t have access to school.
My dad became our teacher. He had worked as the headmaster of a school and the dean of the Balkh University at the faculty of medicine in Afghanistan. Education was incredibly important
