first woman mayor of Afghanistan proves Critics Wrong
After facing suspicions of local men, Azra Jafari is now called "Mayor" - a title that expresses respect to Afghanistan. When Azra Jafari became mayor of Nili, she knew that the poor and remote Afghan town desperately needed roads and investment. She was aware that she would live in very basic conditions, on a meager salary of $ 76 (£ 50) per month, and take care of a girl of four years, at the same time would be difficult. She was less prepared was the emergence of a powerful priest in his makeshift office, wagging her finger on it, warning that Nili was not about to accept a woman mayor who thought that it could "exploit her femininity in order to complete some projects and to influence our women." "After three months, the same man came up to me and thanked me," Jafari recalled four years later. "He said, "If a man could do just half of what you have done here, our province will surely prosper. "It now supports me and we work very well together. - I have great respect for him," It is now called "Mayor" by his community, a title that expresses respect in an unknown country for women's rights . Until 09, Nili, a small town of about 40,000 people at the center of Daykundi province had never seen a responsible woman, Jafari said. She had to prove to the community that it was serious about improving their lives. Jafari, who is married to an Afghan filmmaker, currently the subject of a documentary series called Kabul: "A city to work," a sequel to Kabul to work, which aims to show ordinary Afghans workers doing extraordinary things a time of war. Like thousands of Afghans, Jafari fled the civil war in the early 190s, took refuge in Iran, where she ran a school for children of Afghan refugees. she returned to Afghanistan in September 01 take part in a peace jirga (tribal assembly of elders) that the fall of the Taliban has become imminent
(Reported by Golnar Motevalli for Guardian) Photo credit :. Guardian.co.uk
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