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en. But a sizable gap remained between paper pledges and people's lives.
Everyone knew it would take years to undo the damage wrought by the vicious gender
apartheid of the Taliban.
The morning began with a simple coffee in one of the building's reception rooms,
with stunning views of New York's East River. Nane Annan, wife of UN Secretary-
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alongside international luminaries, including Jordan's Queen Noor. Then it was on to the
conference, with six hundred attendees. My chair was marked as the lead seat of the U.S.
delegation. Not until that moment did I realize that I was, on that morning Monster Beats, representing
my country at the United Nations.
I spoke of the U.S. government's commitment to aiding the people of Afghanistan
and the more than $4 million donated so far by American children to help the children of
Afghanistan. American aid workers were doggedly helping Afghan refugees return home
and helping the country's widows, devastated after twenty-three years of fighting, support
their families. Some of our contributions were bags of wheat for the twenty-one women-
owned bakeries in Kabul. Those bakeries fed over one-quarter of the city's population. I
spoke too of helping to educate the children of Afghanistan. "When you give children
books and an education, you give them the ability to imagine a future of opportunity,
equality, and justice," I said. My favorite line in the speech was a quotation from
Farahnaz Nazir, the founder of the Afghanistan Women's Association cheap dre beats, who said, "Society
is like a bird. It has two wings. And a bird cannot fly if one wing is broken."
We would help bind that broken wing.
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crowded inside another school, P.S. 41. The students had returned to their original
building in early February, once the smoldering fires had finally been extinguished and
the worst of the air pollution had cleared. School officials conservatively estimated that at
least 5 percent of the students were still suffering from severe emotional trauma. The
number was probably far higher. Many children were terrified of getting on an airplane or
riding the subway. Low-flying helicopters and planes or sudden loud noises would leave
them shaken and in tears. I listened to these ten- and eleven-year-olds and thought of
them, like me, still anxiously scanning the skies.
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nearly eight years of Taliban rule, it would be their first time in a classroom. The Red
Cross had already shipped more than one thousand school kits, with supplies for forty
thousand children, to Kabul to be distributed on opening day. George and I helped
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