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Archive Home > 2010 > April > 12 > Park offers taste of freedom to women in Afghan capital

Park offers taste of freedom to women in Afghan capital

It’s a place for learning as well as play, with on-site classrooms teaching sewing and farming

By Emily Wax / The Bulletin
April 12, 2010

KABUL — On a recent day when the sun was finally strong enough to dry the Afghan capital’s muddy streets, Habiba Sarwe sought her husband’s permission to visit a spot that her daughter and all the neighborhood wives were talking about: a park, with swings, benches, flowers and a gazebo. A park....

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