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Eva Philosopher Staff: BNT
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On the bleak prospect of living without access to education and health care in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power told Eva Pilosof to BNT.
After a difficult escape from Afghanistan, the Bulgarian is in Islamabad, where she follows what is happening in the country she loves and has lived in for years.
Physically, Eva Philosopher is in a safe place – in Islamabad, with her husband, who is Pakistani. But in her heart and mind she is in insecure Kabul – there she left the cause to teach and many close people worry about them.
“People don’t have money en masse. The streets of Afghanistan are full of people taking their furniture out to sell and to have the means to feed themselves. A humanitarian crisis is sure to happen. Afghanistan is a country in which, due to the lack of quality infrastructure, has very small settlements, to which there is no access during the winter and there are about two weeks left until the last term in which they can bring food, “said Eva Pilosof, a Bulgarian who fled Afghanistan.
Without money, without access to medical care and during a new wave of COVID, surviving in Afghanistan is difficult. The international community has made efforts to provide coronavirus vaccines, but they have been insufficient.
“I vaccinated myself while I was there. But the vaccines were few. It took a lot of effort to convince my colleagues and friends that they should be vaccinated because there is great propaganda from the Taliban that this is an American conspiracy. The biggest problem, which is getting more complicated with each passing day, is who will treat the women, because there are very few qualified female doctors, mainly in Kabul – a large part of the population does not have access to them. to visit a male doctor is impossible “, added Eva Pilosof.
After a statement a few days ago on Twitter of the rector of the largest university in the country, which is in Kabul – it became clear that higher education is becoming a territory prohibited for women.
“Women will not return to university either as students or as teachers. And in fact, his statement ends with the slogan ‘Islam first and foremost.’ This means that women will not be able to return to complete their education,” he said. Eva the Philosopher.
According to her, Afghan women are not motivated to pay for education, as they will not be able to pursue a career after that.
Fleeing Kabul, Eva Philosopher chose to go to Islamabad to be close and have the opportunity to return to Afghanistan to be a teacher again – her vocation and cause. But she knows that this is unlikely to happen soon.
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