Winnipeg women born in Afghanistan fear Taliban's return to power 'like history repeated itself'
CBC
Sadaf Saberi is living her dream.
The 21-year-old graduated from high school in Winnipeg in June, earned two scholarships and just last week started studying engineering at the University of Manitoba.
She remembers the day she found out she had been accepted into the university's engineering faculty.
"I was just jumping around being so happy and, like, even dancing," she said.
The journey hasn't been easy.
Saberi was born in Afghanistan. Her parents have told her that from the time she was five years old, she was eager to go to school.
But that enthusiasm couldn't protect her from encountering the belief education isn't for girls, or experiencing what it was like to have her school threatened by the Taliban, who by that point had been removed from power but were still a danger.
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