Razia Jan visits Heidelberg
332 views · Published 31 October 2012 · 1:57 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: Stars and Stripes · 2012 · News & Politics
Girl Scouts in Heidelberg, who have been collecting shoes and coats for girls in Afghanistan, got to hear Wednesday from the woman who's charity in Afghanistan they've helped. The Girl Scouts got a chance to hear about the struggles of young girls in a country where many of their parents have deployed. Razia Jan, who risks her life so more than 300 girls spread among seven rural villages in Afghanistan can go to school was a hero to 17-year-old Cara Burmedi, a Heidelberg Girl Scout who has been helping Jan's as part of a project to earn scouting's coveted Gold Award. After organizing a book drive to raise money for Jan's school and sending dozens of coats that Jan's students will wear this winter, Burmedi had hoped to visit Jan in Afghanistan. But with the security situation in the country still dangerous, Burmedi instead invited Jan to Germany -- and Jan accepted. Jan says she lives in fear every day that something may happen to her or her students, and thanks God for every day that she and her school survive.
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