Sakena Yacoobi Has Growing Youth Group
November 21, 2011 by Sally Farhat KassabSkoll Awardee Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning was just featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The piece was an update on her life since their last feature on her in Spring 2010. She talks about the continuous war, her new youth group, her love of the environment, and more. An excerpt:
“’A highlight of my life is my emerging youth group,’ Yacoobi told me. She recently took 25 students, ages 18-25, to a peace conference in India. Now the group meets once a month for discussions. Each student was asked to bring two others, and the group has swelled to over 200.”
Read more about what Yacoobi is up to: http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/entry/afghanistan_update_from_sakena_yacoobi