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Mrs.Loomis has had direct experience with the Afghanistan problems and what she does to help them is priceless. I learned about the current situation of Afghanistan and how it's economy is very unbalanced because of the leaving of women. The life for children in Afghanistan is a disgrace with them having to work all day instead of going to school. Most of the evacuators from Afghanistan are children  Changing countries is a culture shock. At least the children won't need to experience the trauma from Afghanistan. The people would come to the camp in Wyoming with only their backpacks! Imagine all the memories they would have in Afghanistan and leave with only a backpack! Also no pets in the camp which would be devastaiting. Lots of people from the camp are working on making schools for children and adults because certain adults don't know how to be respectful to other religions and to the other gender. In Afghanistan kids 12 years old already have their future decided.
PROBING QUESTIONS
If a child traveled without anyone she knows, with who would she stay?
What are suicide bombs?
Why do women have to be covered in Afghanistan?
Did people from Venezuela come to Brazil for similar reasons for Afghanistan's evacuation.

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I learned a lot of things, one of the things i learned was that the taliban wanted to totally end equal rights for women, i mean, women couldn't go to school or they couldn't get the same salary even though they were working at the same job. it was all because of gender. That also connects with my topic for social action. My topic is about how women in united states did not get the same salary as men during the covid 19 pandemic,(Gender pay gap in united states during the pandemic.) In the middle of the pandemic, people stared to get dismissed from there jobs ( mostly women) many people needed that job in order to get enough money to feed their family. So they had to work for extra hours in order to get the same money as men. Not only in the pandemic but overall, everyone needs to be treated respectfully, with the same rights and not depending on the gender. Just thinking that if i was a child living in afghanistan, i wouldn't be having access to education, that is what happens to a lot of girls, not only in afghanistan but other places too.

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We may think that the world is super kind, nice, there's no racism, no poverty, everything is perfect, but really we live in a bubble. When we go by car and travel around our city will see a bunch of kids, adults, and the eldest, begging for food money, trying to sell candy to us for at least enough to survive. And we may not think much about it because we don't know what they live, their suffering, we don't feel what their feeling, we just know what we live. Just like the people from Afghanistan. They were living in an almost perfect world being happy, until the Taliban came, they oppressed all women. In my opinion, they are just doing that because they don't have an idea of suffering, and poverty. Just like everyone they just wanted more and power, and riches, and after a while this power might get on their head, and they will just want more and more power even though to get this power they might to oppress evary one, and for them that might be something good because they are not being oppressed. After seeing that video i could see that no woman were on the street, they didn't had any right to freedom, to express their self, imagene with you couldn't have enough freedom made for go in places made for people, have rights to learn what they want, follow their dreams, hopes, to were what they need they want, to express their feelings. Also on there video  the boys had to work instead of going to school and getting a future, they had to do jobs that not even adults would do. With urgency they went to a crowded plain without any hopes to a whole new place where they don't know their language traditions. To start a whole new beginning. Just like our book club book 90 miles to Havana that our main character Julian, because of his government and the revolution, also found shelter in the USA, and it was a really tough journey to him there because the US was a totally new place for him. With that in mind, I fell worst for all refuges that had passed to so many traumatizing experiences, having to live their homes to a whole new country, being treated as enemies, for all of those who were killed or heart by the taliban, because now I at least know what is happening outside my really small bubble that i live on, and I hope for the best and at the near future will have an equal society.

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Today I learned about the children and the girls that were in Afghanistan. A connection that I made was to the book 90 miles to Havanna where the children had to escape Cuba and get received in camps in the USA. This is similar to what happened in Afghanistan because the people are escaping to go to the military bases in the US. Also, the reason why they left is similar because in 90 miles to Havana Fidel Castro was taking power as a dictator while the Taliban are taking power as dictators. Some questions that came to my mind are why the Taliban is going against women specifically. I think that the Taliban isn't trying to remove women from society because they are sexist but more because they want to weaken the country so it is easier for them to take over more and achieve a bigger goal. Also, another question that came to my mind is why the Afghanistan people just gave up as soon as the Taliban arrived because like in Ukraine the people resisted a lot more than the people in Afghanistan did. Another question that came to mind was how the Taliban took over Afghanistan because this is different from the Russia Ukraine war where Russia is already a powerful nation. Were the Taliban already a powerful secret organization like Russia? Did no one know about it before? One way that I built greater empathy for the evacuees from Afghanistan was that now I understand why they are suffering so much because not only are the women suffering but the men are also suffering because the economy is probably a lot worse so it could be harder to find jobs. Also now many kids have to work because their mothers can't work. This shows how that something that the terrorists did to target one group of people ended up harming the whole country. This supports my point that maybe in the future the Taliban might want to take over other countries in the nearby area.

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During this interesting we had with Ms. Loomis I learned all the horrible thing the  Taliban have done so far. One of the things i strongly disagree is that woman don't show themselves in public. As I see it this is a repetition of history because back in the 1900's this also was a problem due to most of the world did not welcome woman as we do now. Another issue I have is the fact that the kids must work and a lot stopped their education. One thing I still i'm figuring out is why did the U.S leave I know because they said there was no end to it but genuinely feel like they could have stayed more. Although they did do the right thing by giving refugees a place to live food and education I think they the right thing by giving this people a safe place to live

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Ms. Loomis had a great presentation explaining the problems and the events in Afghanistan . During her presentation I learned about how the Women and children are affected in Afghanistan giving examples of real civilians that have been treated unfairly with the terrorists attacks . SHe gave us a clear view about how we need to stop this. She taught us about allied forces that have gone to fight in the war like , China , U.S , Nato and the United Nations . I really like like how she explained how the civilians would be mistreated girls being harassed and boys having to do ridicoulos things like grow a beard. Learning about was very intresting and a book I connected it with is , When stars are scattered.

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This world is a jungle. It is full of treetops and beautiful flowers, but it also has quicksand, which can pull you down, trap you, and make it hard for you to come out. Only with the help of others can you free yourself from quicksand, just like only with the help of other countries can the people of Afghanistan escape their country's hate. 13,000 people of all different cultures evacuated as one thanks to the US troops. They were not reparated by religion, but by gender; by community. The good samaritans who worked at the refugee camps to try and bring happiness and hope to these people came out of the experience with so much knowledge and empathy about the cultural diversity, but also the cultural struggles, faced. This was a traumatic experience for the refugees, as they had to leave their homes suddenly and without certainty that they would have a home, and I am bewildered and astonished by how the managed to keep up hope. Like Gopal in Boys Without Names, these refugees managed to believe in better lives, and in a greater future. The boys working all day long in the streets of Afghanistan, who are the ones less expected to have hope inside of them, still dream big. Like Gopal, who looked at the Nimba tree and willed himself to believe in a greater future, the refugee children, and the children stuck in Afghanistan look at their future and believe in success. They believe that it can happen. This is inspiring, and magical. And yet, speaking about all of the different cultures in the country, as it has been influenced by many other cultures and religions in the past hunderds of years, I come to wonder: What coming together or coming apart did the volunteers at the camps see amongst the different ethnicities at the camps? How did these people, so used to their lives being lived following certain rules and standards, repond to the change? I, having had the fortune of being born into a family that can provide me with food, a good education, presents, clothes, books, and much more, cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to have nothing. I cannot say that I know what these people are experiencing, because I never will. But I can say that I feel for them. I have learned that people are vulnerable, and they need support when their lives are changed. I now understand better the despair of the people living in Afghanistan, and of the ones who have found themselves in a new, scary country with different beliefs and rules. I can also understand their hope. Even though I am unsure of where I myself would find hope if faced with a situation such as the one of the people of Afghanistan, I am inspired by their will to keep on moving forward. They dream big, outside of the cage that they are in. And, to help fulfill their dreams, society can bring change. We fortunate people should aid the less fortunate ones, in order to create one equal, fair, society.

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I find the rights that the taliban are doing un-just, sexist, un-fair and incredibly stupid, the way that they see the world makes them crazy sociopath's. I am still shocked how un-fair they are towards women and girls, not letting them go to school, making them wear masks wherever they go and now not even letting them leave their home, women literally have no rights. and if they break these rules they could be beaten, kidnapped, or killed. Men and boys also suffer to these horrible conditions but not as bad, they are being required to not shave their beards and look like the taliban men and they are tricking them to like the taliban, one example is that men who look like the taliban men will earn more money and get promotions. This has to stop, but no one is doing anything about it, the taliban have to lose power, the Afghanistan people have to fight back, but it will be dificult.

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Learning about Afghan refugees is very important for our society to create a more equal country. It was interesting to find out about how you have to try to get completely different people from different cultures and communities to work together, as well as the entirely different lives people who could not escape from the Taliban are living now. The laws that were discribed reminded me of the book "Ties that Bind, Ties that break" as there was clear inequality in between girls and boys.
In my opinion the laws and extremities of the Taliban government are too harsh on the people that live there, as there are more children working as a way to try to survive instead of going to school.

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After the meeting, I felt so bad for all the young girls and boys in Afghanistan. I learned that young girls can't go to school or even outside. They have to be completely covered. Or else they get punished or arrested. What Mrs. Loomis was talking about connects to the book "Ties that bind, ties that break" because the women in the book have to stay at home and support their husband. Just like the women that Mrs. Loomis was talking about. In addiciton, what we learned relates to our new unit on equality. This helped me build greater empathy for the people from Afghanistan because watching the videos of the boys working or the photos of the young girls made me feel bad. Also, it made my feel angry how we are doing very little things to fix this problem.

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Yes, I was aware of all the injustices and inequalities that occurred in Afghanistan but never to this extent. What I learned today, not only about the women but as well as the children, has truly shocked me and has made me disgusted to see that people still have such mindset in 2022. I can connect this to my book (Full Cicada Moon) because both cases involve gender apartheid to a certain extent. I wonder, for what actual reason is the Taliban doing this to all innocent people? Its very abstract and of course people have very different opinions and ideas on it, but still, why harm so many people?

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Ms.Loomis had an awsome time with us and I really liked that she talked about the peoples in Afghanistan and I really liked to learn about what they do to get money and I thought it was very sad to see the woman suferning in their houses and the boys working very hard . I learned about a lot of things for example I did not know that 600 womans traveled in 1 plane to refugee to another place .

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Mrs loomis had some awsome storys to tell us about Afghansitan girls that could not het ot ouf their home and needed to stay with a mask to cover their face. There where also Kids that needed to find jobs because their dads didnt have a job and they could not go to school. I learned that people are suffering a lot in the world and I didnt have that point of view, This class was very important because I learned lots.

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I Learned that it's extremely difficult in Afghanistan, it's extremely sad whats going on, how families have to leave each other. how women need to change how they dress, look, act! Not only are women having a tough time but also are boys! They have to leave school(also do girls) work for their family knowing how dangerous it is! We also learned how the afganhistan army left!

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When I learned that girls were not allowed to go outside, I though that was very unfair but a bit confusing. First of all, why is it girls that cannot go out and should be wiped from existence overall?? Because, you need to have girls to have a bigger population. This is basically what is happening with racism just with gender (sexism). Okay, I think that it is related to 90 miles to havana because there was a revolution in 90 miles to havan and people had to move away and leave everything they had behind. Sometimes, even their family. I feel really bad about what happened to those children who had to work instead of get a education because they wouldnt be able to work their dream jobs in the future. And, to all those kids who had to leave everything behind, I cannot even imagine what that felt like. This makes me angry and sad

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it think that mrs loomis did a very good job explaining the thing that are happening in afganistan but I have one question why dont other country fight with afganistan against the taliban. like if I was a international power like china or the uk and I saw an other country that is being taken over by some horrible terrorists that forced women to hide their faces I would do something

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Today we learned about what happened and what is happening today. I was very surprised when I leaned that women had no rights and have to stay at home providing for the husband and family. We also learned that women have to have their whole body covered from head to toe. The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan and are looking for more places to conquer.

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Today we deeply learned about how life is in Afghanistan. The Taliban literally took over the whole country and is now controlling it in a horrible way, primarily affecting women. They do not allow girls above 12 to leave home alone with no freedom to do anything. Also, when leaving the house, girls need to be covering their whole bodies from toe to head. If that is not enough, many public spaces were limited, closing schools, and stopping their education which eventually will not give them possibilities.

Even though boys suffer less they still are part of horrible conditions where they need to work so that food is provided for their families. Also, men who are scared or with no options, start taking part in the Taliban's beliefs which can eventually change their perspective of what the Taliban is doing.

What I learned today also contains some connections with Boys without names for talking about child labor and how boys were forced to work. Even though they were actually forced to work in boys without names both suffer from child labor.

Power should be taken away from that horrendous tribe and be given to the Afghanis to fight and earn their country back!

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In my opinion the way that the Taliban reinforces these "laws" about how women not being able to go out without being fully covered and being accompanied by a man and not being able to attend school after the age of 12 is unnecessary.
It's not only this that is unfair, the Taliban being in Afghanistan, Kabul, has made life harder for everyone in general. Families struggle to pay for simple needs, they needed to flee Afghanistan to have some sense of security.
The Taliban has no real way of convincing people to think the way they do and therefore use violence and threats.

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I learned so much stuff about Afghanistan. It is so sad what is going on, how family gets seperated from each other, how women needs to cover their entire body and can't go to the streets, how it is so hard to get a job, and how much gender inequality was in . A lot of things is happening in Afghanistan, but when Mrs Loomis was presenting this to us it reminded me of the book I read called 90 miles to havana. In the book everybody from Cuba was trying to escape to US and the same thing with Afghanistan. A question that came to my mind is why the government of Afghanistan is so crazy? Why do they do this to make people lives tougher? i really feel sorry about the people that couldn't escape, we should do something about this.

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Learning about Afghan refugees and their condition in our world today, revolutionized my way of thinking. I always knew what was going on, but not in this deeper context. It led me to pursue the ideation that life is just a summer with many thunderstorms, the thunder representing the loss of lives, the loss of dignity, and the loss of hope. But despite the thunder and rain, you can still find the sun, the rainbow, and the peak of hope. You can still find it. It is not lost. And I believe that despite the amount of thunder that Afghan refugees have gone through, they will find their sun eventually. And Mrs. Loomis's presentation taught me to realize and appreciate that.

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1.What key points did you learn about? 2. What connections can be made to your book club book or other units of study this year? 3. What probing questions came to mind? 4. In what ways did you build greater empathy for the evacuees from Afghanistan?

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1.What key points did you learn about? 2. What connections can be made to your book club book or other units of study this year? 3. What probing questions came to mind? 4. In what ways did you build greater empathy for the evacuees from Afghanistan?

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The rights inn Afghanistan are incredibly unfair, unjust, sexist and wrong the fact that woman should have less rights than men is a twisted view of the world. The fact that this twisted reality is still around shocks me, it shocks me how humanity can not learn from their previous horrible past.

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In the video, you can see that the kids especially the boys have to work because of the effects of the Taliban many people lost their jobs like women /men, and the kids are forced to work to support their families this is very similar to the situation in Bolivia and many countries sadly.

Ms. Loomis said that sometimes parents would throw their children so that they could make their way into the plane and America for a better future explaining why half of the refugees from Afghanistan are children.

The Taliban ruled with fear and didn’t like the look of women studying and getting a higher education so when the Taliban took over which was almost instantly after the US most of the women left university and stopped working and with the impact of Covid all those women and men had to do distance learning and going back to their home country making it incredibly dangerous for them considering that the Taliban does not support women aspiring to be leaders one day to get an education. From the Taliban's perspective obviously letting women that are aspiring leaders, to leave the country is not good because it probably ensures a future of people trying to take down the Taliban.

There was also a priority list for afghans that had ties to the US to get into the cargo planes.

PROBING QUESTION:

Were there any occasions where siblings got lost or separated and left behind on their own? And if so what are the humanitarians going to do about separated family members.

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Watch and reflect on these two short videos to build further understanding.

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Watch and reflect on these two short videos to build further understanding.

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1. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/afghan-evacuees-on-life-in-america/#x

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VsyYaNrhAIY

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Day in the life of a child in Afghanistan | Newsround

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Mrs.Loomis had a very special and entertaining stories to tell. She had lots of experience on Afghanistan and many other places. Afghanistan had many women refugees and children that ran away because of how unfair the place was. She told us lots of entertaining stories and we learned so many things. Thank you for coming!

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It's quite obvious that life for that of both genders has always been hard in Afganistan. Even before the Taliban overtook the population, families were struggling for work and it wasn't weird to see children out on the streets, shining shoes, dumpster diving, etc. Kids were earning less than 50p and struggled to pay for lunch. Women have been suffering sexism for a long time in multiple different places, like Afganistan as we know, but also other places like Saudi Arabia. The rules inforced to 'sustain' or 'protect' women include wearing abayas which tend to cover the whole body, the inability to drive, or the rules allowing men to control their women. Trevor Noah wrote about how some of his Uncle's would tell him things like "If you don't control you're women, you don't love her."

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when I learned that the Taliban wanted to basically exclude girls from the world I was in disbelief because I thought it was very extreme.

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Women are very badly treated in Afghanistan. They can't even drive if they are not covered and with a boy beside her. When they turn 12 years old they have to get out of school. They can't even go out to the streets , they have to hide.

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I feel really bad about girls and even boys from Afghanistan. Because girls can't go to school, they go to school when they are under 12, but when you're past 12 you can't go to school and they can't have an education. And boys are going to work at a very young age, just like child labor. There are no girls in the streets because of the Taliban. And when girls go in a car, (rarely) they can't go without a company of a man. Also, they have to go fully dressed like they can't go in a dress, they have to go fully covered.

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I thought it was really interesting to see what life as a 6 grader was like in Afghanistan. And I enjoyed learning how much the Taliban affected people's lives to the point where people had to evacuate to Wisconsin. It was unfortunate because they had to basically leave their lives behind and the people who were left behind were in a really rough position such as boys having to work instead of going to school to support their families and girls having to hide their faces and can't even go outside without a mask.

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I learned about the journey of some refugees and the experience that they went through. I also learned about life for boys and girls after the fall of Kabul. The experience girls in Afghanistan are going through right now can be compared to the inequality the book Ties that Bind Ties that Break depicts with the tradition of feet binding. What the boys are going through connects to the book Boys Without Names where we see classism and how boys leave school to work and help their families. I wondered how the logistics of transporting all of the refugees, and how separated families were united. I could not imagine having to leave my house in a rush, and the despair. I remember when this happened on the news I saw the videos of people clinging to the landing gear of the planes that were taking off and the same people later falling from the sky. I feel empathy for these people and it is amazing that after going through that they still want to help other people like the informal schools made by refugees in fort mcoy

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This conects to my book because both are from afghanistan and have a seirous gender inaquality with woman, in my book it talks about this girl called paravana how is a girl how suffer of gender inauqality because of the taliban same with the woman in these videos how had sufferd alot because of gender inaqality.

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my book is from afghanstan there is this girl called Paravana that suffered gender inaquality her father went to jail she needed to dress as a boy

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Families had to flee Afghanistan because of the Taliban.Many people want to make a change not only in the home country but also the USA.!48 women  that are in collage left there family and friends and it took 7 atempts.On the sixth try Taliban bombed the airport and many lives were lost.On the seven try they made it and many women are bruised and many decided not to go because it was to dangerous.In Afghanistan women are not allowed to drive ,they can only drive if they are fully covered and a man is with them.This is so sad because in the past women looked free and happy and after the Taliban they are covering there faces and suffering and scared.Right now May 30th 2022 girls are not allowed to go to school 6th grade onwards. Girls and womens are not only suffering boys also.Boys have to work to be able to pay for education because of the Taliban it is hard for men to find work.Boys and just the age of 13 already work so they can eat and alest buy some bread,so they won't starve.A connection with the book is immigrating because in the book 90 miles to havana Julian and his brothers leave to go to Miami ,and right now womens are leaving their home country so they can be safe.

Some questions I have is that where did you imagraint from? How hard was it adapting from one country to another

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I learned that the kids in Kabul are having a tough life. they need to work so they can do basically everything! their work is to clean other's shoes, but they poorly find people that accept it. they don't like the life that they are living now. What I learned about the girls/women was that they have to be with a boy to allow them to do basically everything. its very unfair for them. when girls get to sixth grade, it is obligatory for them to leave school. girls need to have more freedom and equal rights.

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I feel bad for boys and girls in Afganistan. I feel very bad because both of them are not able to go to school, either from lack of money or Taliban rules. The girls are also discriminated in terrible ways, such as having to cover their entire body and be accompanied by a man to even be allowed outside.

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I learned that many leave Afghanistan because of the Taliban.  These people dont leave becasue they want to but because they have to. When they do leave they leave many things behing like family,friends and siblings. When they get to the USA they want a better future and to go back to there home country. One of the most persecuted groups are called Hazara.
Some connections to the book (90 Miles to Havana) I am reading include the fact that both the main charter and the Afghan people are both refugees. Also Mrs.Loomis said that many families are separated in the journey. And in my book Julian (Main character ) is separated from hos family.
Some questions I have include what would happen if the US and other countries  closed there borders for the Afghan refugees.
Some ways to show empathy to the refugees is to welcome them into our country and to be kind to them.

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I learned a lot about everything that is going on. I learned that a lot of families had to leave each other so their were little kids separated from their parents and friends. When families escaped from Afghanistan the airports were full and dangerous, there were bombings that killed a lot of people. I also  learned how there is gender apartheid and how the apartheid effects girls and boys. For example girls 12 and under can not got to school and they can't get into cars with out a man and their whole body covered. I feel like this is  unfair. But it also effects boys, little boys have to stop going to school to find jobs and help their family with money. These little boys have a lot of dreams and want to have amazing jobs but they can't do that without education. The life in Afghanistan is really bad.

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In the videos there was lots of refugees fleeing from Afghanistan because of the Taliban. For my social action project I am doing it about Economics / Classism and there was a lot of that in the videos. There were also stupid rules like woman can't leave the house without a man accompanying them.

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Some key points I learned were how was the life of an Afghan evacuee, how some college girls are trying to change Afghanistan, girls that are over 12 are not able to go to school or even leave the house not covered or unaccompanied by a man. Also, women journalists were not able to be journalists and they had to cover themselves, but men journalists took a chance and wore a mask during their reports. They showed solidarity. Many people took a change during this hard hard time. When the transportation from Afghanistan and the US people got dehydrated and came to the US with open wounds. 400 pregnant women arrived in the US. Some connections that I can make to the books we read is that out of bounds connects to it. This was like the Apartheid for gender. One question I had was why? and Who will take all of these refugees in? We can build greater empathy by helping in any way possible and making a change.

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Not only do women suffer in this situation, but men do too. Most have to work for the whole day, and if they dont get the job done they cant get food. I imagine the worry of the parents (especially women who cannot leave the house, knowing that even if their children are in trouble, there's nothing she can do. I have a question though, Mrs.Loomis says that people on their way/ on the airport get beaten, why doesnt the Taliban kill them or take them away; what is the point in just beating somebody?

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I learned that the kid in Kabul did not really like the life they were living but the only thing they enjoyed was helping there family. If these kids went to Wisconsin how was their life after the evacuation?
The women couldnt even leave the house because of the really strict rules of the Taliban.

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I feel very bad for women and girls, they have to be with a boy to allow her to do everything. They can't drive if they are not covered and without a boy. Girls when they hit 12 years old (sixth grade), its mandatory that girls get out of school. Girls and women need more education and more equal rights.