Opinion: Educate world's children; match their courage with dollars
Source: mercurynews.com Posted By: Jerry 5373 days ago
I have a new hero, and I don't even know her name.
She's a 9-year-old Afghan girl whose father forbid her to go to school. Seeing her friends' excitement, she sneaked in anyway. She could have been publicly whipped for disobeying her father, but this was too important to her.
One day, her father received a letter from a relative in Pakistan, but he was illiterate. This little girl bravely told her father that she could read it for him. Instead of beating her, he embraced his daughter, feeling....