Afghan+Institute+of+Learning

Listening: Afghan Institute of Learning
Watch the video below and answer the following questions:

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( You can also watch this video on Youku. Follow this link. )


 * 1) What did Sakeena Yakubi see when she was a child in Afghanistan?
 * 2) What did the women in Afghanistan not have?
 * 3) What did they have very little, or none, of?
 * 4) When did Sakeena go to the United States?
 * 5) What did she do when she was there?
 * 6) When did she visit the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan?
 * 7) What did that visit persuade her to do?
 * 8) When did she start the Afghan Institute of Learning?
 * 9) Who did the organisation serve at its beginning?
 * 10) What did the Taliban control at that time?
 * 11) What did the Taliban rulers forbid girls to do?
 * 12) What did Sakeena risk her life to do?
 * 13) How many girls attended these schools?
 * 14) When did American forces oust the Taliban?
 * 15) What does Sakeena's organisation avoid today?
 * 16) What three things does the organisation operate?
 * 17) How many teachers has the Institute trained?
 * 18) What has it provided for 500,000 women?
 * 19) How many staff members does the organisation have?
 * 20) What do both men and women discuss about the Koran?
 * 21) Why did the institute open Gawhar Shad University?
 * 22) How many students have already graduated from this university?
 * 23) What kind of majors do they offer at this university?
 * 24) How many women does the Afghan Institute of Learning serve each year?
 * 25) How much money did Sakeena get for winning the award? What was the award for?
 * 26) What did Sakeena say when she accepted her award?

When you finish, email your answers (written in COMPLETE SENTENCES) to Mick (klub157@gmail.com) and Ruby (tust.ruby@gmail.com)