Sepehra Azami News Today

Nine Afghan undergraduates from Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women, who fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021, have been admitted as Cornell students with full financial aid.

A coalition of higher-education and humanitarian-assistance groups seeks to make colleges refugee students’ official sponsors, responsible not just for their educational needs but their financial, logistical, and social ones, too.

The nine undergrads will be arriving on campus through December, thanks to robust international and cross-campus collaborations. Cornell has pledged support until they graduate.

As hundreds of refugee children sat idle on Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy U.S. Army base, three Afghan women created a school to make up for their missed lessons, as well as to prepare them for a life in the U.S. Rise Again now has about 20 teachers and 200 students.

On an army base in the U.S. Midwest, dozens of Afghan refugee children sit with colouring books and pencils spread across their desks — listening intently as they are taught maths, English and h

The evacuees said they were grateful for the warm reception they have received at the fort, but for many, the long wait has been gruelling