Khatera Haleem joined Ideas Beyond Borders to pursue her dream of a modern, free-thinking Afghanistan and use her knowledge to fight the Taliban.
Khatera Haleem was in a bad place last summer. After the Taliban seized Afghanistan on August 15, the 30-year-old teacher shut down. “I lost everything. “I was just sitting at home worrying about the future,” she says. Friends told her to read books and keep busy but despair consumed her. All she could do was take medication and sleep.