Sonita Mominzada, a refugee from Afghanistan, has six sisters — all young women desperate to get back to their university studies.
She has to pause when she talks about them. She takes deep breaths and turns off her camera on Zoom. “I’m sorry,” she says, when she returns, wiping away tears.
Mominzada, 28, and her husband Hashmatullah arrived in Canada from Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover in late August 2021. They came through a special resettlement program for those who assisted the Canadian government. Hashmatullah did translation work for the Canadian and U.S. armies.
But while they escaped, the lives of her sisters and other family members still
