Documentary: Afghan Impressions: - People: port2

A young girl in a literacy class at the Khair Khana Center for street children in Kabul. 

It seemed to me that resignation had seeped into the outlooks of most of the men I met in Afghanistan. The politicians and warlords had resumed their dominant status and the rest were resigned to their lot, a familiar male hierarchy reconstituted. But among some of the women, and the young girls going to school for the first time, it felt there had been a shift, an opening, and they were holding tight to a glimmer of hope that new possibilities and opportunities might yet be realized.