KABUL, has won the 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.
The 49-year-old left Kabul with her family in 1992 and ended up living in a remote refugee settlement in Kot Chandna in Pakistan’s Punjab province, where most girls were excluded from school.
With her meagre resources, she won over the community and persuaded parents to send their daughters to school. Today more than a thousand children attend permanent schools in the village.
A statement from UNHCR said the Nansen Refugee Award ceremony . . .
