For a group of roughly two dozen displaced Afghan university students, the future feels uncertain. They’ve already uprooted their lives once, fleeing Kabul when Afghanistan fell back under Taliban rule. Now, they're awaiting approval to come to the US.
They’ve already uprooted their lives once, fleeing Kabul – where they were studying at the American University of Afghanistan – when Afghanistan fell back under Taliban rule and the university was shuttered two years ago. They were among the 110 AUAF students who were able to evacuate to Iraqi Kurdistan to continue studies at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani with the help of both universities, former Iraqi President Barham Salih, and a group called the Afghan Future Fund.
“This is basically my last hope,” this student said, noting they do not want to lose admission again. “I do not want to lose another year of my life,” the first student said. “I really want to study. I have worked really hard when I was in Afghanistan to get the chance of going to AUAF,” they said. “I’m never going to give up on education,” they added. “We Afghans lost almost everything, and this scholarship in the US is a very big opportunity for us,” a third student told CNN.
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