A nation-wide tour of Zoya, a member of RAWA in October 2009, exactly 8 years after the start of the US war.
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Afghan Women's Mission is pleased to announce a
nation-wide tour of Zoya, a member of RAWA in October 2009, exactly 8
years after the start of the US war. Zoya will share the message of
RAWA in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Iowa, Los Angeles, Berkeley,
and San Francisco.
Click here for a detailed calendar of events.
About Zoya
Twenty eight year old Zoya is a member of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Like many RAWA members, Zoya has witnessed and endured more tragedy and terror than most people do in a lifetime. Zoya grew up during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan and was robbed of her mother and father when they were murdered by fundamentalists - Zoya was only fourteen. Devastated by so much death and destruction, she fled Kabul with her grandmother and started a new life in exile in Pakistan. After attending a school funded by RAWA, she joined the underground women's organization and continues their work resisting fundamentalism and war today. Zoya has traveled across the world speaking about her experiences and the work of RAWA.
Because RAWA is an underground organization, members like Zoya do not reveal their real identity for fear of being persecuted.
"The message of RAWA to freedom-loving people is to support the democratic organizations of Afghanistan. Freedom, democracy and justice cannot be enforced at gunpoint by a foreign country; they are the values that can be achieved only by our people and democracy-loving forces through a hard, decisive and long struggle." -- Zoya in a June 2009 interview with Elsa Rassbach, after testifying to the Human Rights Commission of the German Parliament.