Afghan women resume education in the US

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During COVID-19, students at the Asian University for Women — with its main campus in Bangladesh — sent everyone home to study online. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan, many Afghan students there were able to flee the country. Now settled in the US, they are resuming their studies, but they first need to learn English. Emily Fine reports on the women, who are now studying at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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