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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: An Afghan Girl’s Quest for Education [Watch (HLS stream): An Afghan Girl’s Quest for Education](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Qm2cs6Qg.m3u8) (7:48)  _Published 2012-01-18. After a childhood of trauma in Kabul, Nilab Nusrat finds herself in New York seeking education and a future –– for herself and her country_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:21 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [TIME100 Talks: The Future of Education](/video/mbGguEyt/):25 ### TIME100 Talks: The Future of Education [Is the Six-Year High School the Future of Education?](/video/73aj2Sft/) ### Is the Six-Year High School the Future of Education? [Shaping The Future of Higher Education in America](/video/RfYE3pzE/) ### Shaping The Future of Higher Education in America --- ## Transcript Sometimes when I want to sleep, I close my eyes and I saw the fire. I don't know why I couldn't cry. I don't know. Every child they have. Dream, but in my dream was different than another children, because my dream was cuz I go to school back cuz I have a good family. One day when I was just 11 or when I wake up in the morning, I go outside the room and I saw my father and play. After two days when my father was in the hospital, he said just for my mother, you should leave my daughter to go to school. Nobody know why my father said. After three months the police officer came. And they took my mother, and me and they threw us into prison. And we never see my brother and my sister for two and a half years. I never see my house again. [ FOREIGN ] Bye have fun. Yeah. Be happy. [ LAUGH ] I am happy. Think wonderful thoughts Yeah, I love you. I love you. Me too [ LAUGH ] Bye Emma! Have a nice day! And, there was no hope and suddenly there was one hope. [ SOUND ] We, in November 2009, took 55 children out of the Cobble's Women's Prison into our children't support center, which is a residence for children whose mothers are in prison. [ LAUGH ] She was the second child to come out through women frack. When I came to the women's organization, I thought that I born again. This is the last [ INAUDIBLE ]. They say, we have one center that them support the children. We have computer classes, we have a classes from the city. I was so happy. And, on that time, I thought that maybe I would fly in the sky. [ FOREIGN ] Two eyes, a mouth, two ears but the ears are on top of your head. [ SOUND ] Because in Afghanistan we don't have ocean. I saw the ocean in the first time in America and, you know when I was in this beach and in the water and I feel like a. If you give for a patient medicine. I feel like this. [ LAUGH ] [ SOUND ] One month and a few days ago I came to New York. [ MUSIC ] When I was in the Children's Support Center, they decide that I should speak in the party of women, for Afghan women. And they bring me in New York, and I spoke in this party, and after this I saw some school in the New York and I like. I born in a country that girls don't have allowed to get education. Families sell your daughters for money, and they have a lots of problem in Afghanistan. I heard about them, one Afghani boy. He came to the American and he he get a scholarship and [ INAUDIBLE ] school. I can believe that no, I can be a leader. [ INAUDIBLE ] Can I have a scholarship because I want to study in here. There is a lot of stuff [ INAUDIBLE ]. The girls can get tradition. Why? The girls are not human. Thanks. [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] It was legally bonding to [ INAUDIBLE ]. They called a loya jirga to ratify the constitution. So his opponents have said that because, especially because Karzai had had been fighting with the Parliament all year. When I was living in Afghanistan I thought that maybe American people they don't have any problems. But then I came to America. I understood that, no. All the pupil in all over the world, they have some problem. And what about little brother and sister? You'll see them soon. Yeah, I'm [ UNKNOWN ] my brother and I want to see and embrace my brother. All of the problem that I had in the past time, my father's side, my mother [ UNKNOWN ]. All of this problem made me really strong. We're here in Elam. Terminal four here we come. Are you excited? Why am I excited? I changed my last name for Navstrad. Because Navstrad means victory. Hey. [ FOREIGN ] Do you know the English? [ MUSIC ] When I finish my school, I want to, study my, at University in America. [ MUSIC ] [ CROSSTALK ] I want to be a lawyer. This is cell phone? Yeah. Zero, seven Un, I want to go back to Afghanistan, and help my people [ CROSSTALK ] [ INAUDIBLE ] American flight 251, with service to London. 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