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Awista Ayub - A Beacon of Hope for the Children of Afghanistan

Aishah Schwartz

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Awista Ayub - A Beacon of Hope for the Children of Afghanistan

By Aishah Schwartz

On October 18, 1979, a child named Awista Ayub was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Nearly a quarter of a century later, she would become an internationally recognized beacon of hope to a generation of young girls, survivors of the fallen Taliban regime. As a result of Awista’s visionary Afghan Youth Sports Exchange program, a new generation of girls has learned the simple joy of kicking around a soccer ball, after decades of war and struggle in their homeland.

A Brief History of Afghanistan

In the same year that Awista was born, the Soviet-backed Afghan government, facing increased opposition to its “un-Islamic” social policies from guerrilla opposition forces, otherwise referred to as the Ta