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Fahima Vorgetts on Afghan Women, Dec. 9 at 11:00AM in Little Theater
Fahima Vorgetts explaining her work with "Women for Afghan Women." She speaks on the RSC campus on Wednesday, December 9th at 11:00AM in the Little Theater.
Fahima has been involved in opening new schools for girls and literacy classes for women, creating income-generating projects for widows, and arranging for the shipment of medical and school supplies and clothing to refugees.
Fahima has addressed the United Nations and traveled widely speaking at university conferences and religious organizations, appeared on many television and radio programs, including the BBC and NPR and been featured in articles in the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post.
Fahima is the winner of several awards from peace and human rights organizations. She is an inspiring, charismatic speaker who possesses wisdom on the realities in Afghanistan and recommendations on how the US should and should not be involved.
She works with “Women for Afghan Women” and her latest report about her work and travels can be found on their web site here.
She has served as a consultant for two books dealing with Afghan women – WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN: SHATTERING MYTHS AND RECLAIMING THE FUTURE, edited by Sunita Mehta and BEHIND THE BURQA, by Batya Swift Yasgur, which is the memoir of two Afghan sisters.
Fahima is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award “for Extraordinary Contribution to Peace and Justice” awarded by the Ann Arundel Peace Action Organization in 2002. In December 2003 she was awarded the “Human Rights Community Award” by the UN Association of the National Capital Area. In September 2004 she received the “Most outstanding volunteer” award from Ann Arundel County. In April 2005, she received the Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice. In 2007 she received the Soroptimist award.
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