Angelina Jolie, a extraordinary representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, build the school in Qala-i-Gudar previous year and is scheduling to release more in Afghanistan with earnings from a newly-launched jewelry line that she has premeditated.
The Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited Qala-i-Gudar in 2011, and she preserves an enthusiastic fan base among inhabitants who have on no account seen any of her films and have no initiative about her worldwide celebrity as an actress.
Acting is contentious in the country, with lots of conventional Afghans associating it with un-Islamic manners and even prostitution.
Homaira, aged 13, is one of 250 pupils at the all-girls school who has assistance from the latest amenities, which opened for their initial full educational year last month.
“We used to study in the backyard of the mosque, it was hard,” Homaira told AFP. “Now we are so happy to have a school. It’s a beautiful place.”
Asked who build her school, Homaira smiled and answered, “The beautiful American lady Angelina Jolie.”
“Through the generous contribution of Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special Envoy,” it reads.
Even headmasters Gul Rahmman Ayaz come into view unaware of Angelina Jolie’s megastar celebrity, according to the grapevine believing she was a superior UNHCR official.
“Is she?” Ayaz asked suspiciously after learning Angelina Jolie was an actress. “Well whatever, she is a enormous woman, extremely kind woman,” he added with a smile.
Ayaz recalled Angelina Jolie visiting the mosque’s unlock patch, which at the time served as a classroom, and sitting cross-legged with villagers discussing her diagram to establish a modern school.
“She was very humble. She sat on dust. She didn’t behave like a movie star,” Ayaz said, remembering Angelina Jolie arrived in a U.N.-marked vehicle and wore an unpretentious black outfit and brown headscarf.
Sabera, the school’s only female teacher, believed Angelina Jolie was a modernization specialist sent to construct schools in Afghanistan as it struggles to appear from decades of war that missing the village in skeleton.
“I thought she was an engineer,” said Sabera, 30, who like the majority Afghans exercises only one name. “I have never seen her movies but I hope she comes back.”
Beneath the hard-line Taliban, who feint Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, cinema was debarred and girls were forbidden from attending school.
Qala-i-Gudar was on the forefront in fighting between the Taliban government in Kabul and Northern Alliance forces.
Administrators speak millions of children, about 40% of them girls; have go back to school — one of the solution achievements of the billion-dollar global aid attempt since the 2001 U.S.-led incursion bring down the Taliban.
But, according to Kabir Haqmal, head of public affairs at the education ministry, half of the 10.5 million students at rest study in the open air or tents, and 50% of about 200,000 teachers are without qualifications.
“Anyone investing in Afghanistan’s education is investing in the future of Afghanistan,” Haqmal told AFP. “I know this school was built by Angelina Jolie and we appreciate her work.”
Angelina Jolie, partner of Brad Pitt and celebrity of the Lara Croft movies, has an extensive evidence of compassionate work and told the E! News website that she hopes to finance more schools from the proceeds of her new jewelry line called “Style of Angelina Jolie”.
In Qala-i-Gudar, as in a great deal of rustic Afghanistan, there is small right of entry to television. Out of a dozen girls interviewed by AFP, half don’t have a set at home. Another has one, but says “the aerial has been broken for a year”.
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