Shelters for Safety
Imagine yourself as a sixteen-year-old girl from Afghanistan, awaiting your wedding ceremony to begin. Hands trembling, you adjust your colorful burka, making sure only your face is shown. Modesty is key. Clunky necklaces dangle from your neck, weighing your head down. A few minutes later, you are introduced to a bearded man, about the age of fifty -- the man that’s about to become your husband. You feel your body shaking as you greet him by kissing each cheek, hoping he doesn’t sense your fear. Looking around, you lock eyes with your father. He is the one who arranged this, because he didn’t want you to end up an unmarried burden. The stranger, your new spouse-to-be, grabs your hand and the ceremony begins. …show more content…
The documentary “Love Crimes of Kabul” directed by Tanaz Eshaghian, features a Sabereh, a seventeen-year-old whose father turned her in. His reason? He found her kissing a boy (Love Crimes of Kabul). Kissing. It seems that the country has different standards when it comes to dating than the United States does, however, is that really an excuse to call the police on your own child? “She has embarrassed herself, and she has embarrassed me,” said her father to the cameraman (Love Crimes of Kabul). He couldn’t stand to be in her presence, and the police took her away to a prison where the guards refer to the jailed women as scum. One security guard said, “if they were good women, they wouldn’t be here.” (Love Crimes of Kabul). Sabereh was considered a bad person. For kissing. Their moral code is much different than ours here in the …show more content…
A way that can be done is through the Peace Corps -- trips can be arranged by volunteers eager to make a change. Their mission is to provide “service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation” (peacecorps.gov). A number of volunteers can sign up for a two-year long trip to Afghanistan, and during that time, they can build women’s shelters for abused women to reside in. They can even have brave souls go out of a search for women on the run or in need of
Imagine yourself as a sixteen-year-old girl from Afghanistan, awaiting your wedding ceremony to begin. Hands trembling, you adjust your colorful burka, making sure only your face is shown. Modesty is key. Clunky necklaces dangle from your neck, weighing your head down. A few minutes later, you are introduced to a bearded man, about the age of fifty -- the man that’s about to become your husband. You feel your body shaking as you greet him by kissing each cheek, hoping he doesn’t sense your fear. Looking around, you lock eyes with your father. He is the one who arranged this, because he didn’t want you to end up an unmarried burden. The stranger, your new spouse-to-be, grabs your hand and the ceremony begins. …show more content…
The documentary “Love Crimes of Kabul” directed by Tanaz Eshaghian, features a Sabereh, a seventeen-year-old whose father turned her in. His reason? He found her kissing a boy (Love Crimes of Kabul). Kissing. It seems that the country has different standards when it comes to dating than the United States does, however, is that really an excuse to call the police on your own child? “She has embarrassed herself, and she has embarrassed me,” said her father to the cameraman (Love Crimes of Kabul). He couldn’t stand to be in her presence, and the police took her away to a prison where the guards refer to the jailed women as scum. One security guard said, “if they were good women, they wouldn’t be here.” (Love Crimes of Kabul). Sabereh was considered a bad person. For kissing. Their moral code is much different than ours here in the …show more content…
A way that can be done is through the Peace Corps -- trips can be arranged by volunteers eager to make a change. Their mission is to provide “service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation” (peacecorps.gov). A number of volunteers can sign up for a two-year long trip to Afghanistan, and during that time, they can build women’s shelters for abused women to reside in. They can even have brave souls go out of a search for women on the run or in need of