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Ascend

Military & Veterans' Issues

These Girls Represented A New Hope For Afghanistan. Now They Are ‘Left To The Wolves.’

Dan Katz

For the past six years, the American NGO Ascend has helped Afghan girls train to become mountain climbers. To many, they represented a new hope for women in Afghanistan. Now the NGO is working desperately to help them escape the Taliban.