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Lessons of Hope from Afghan Schoolchildren, Six Years Later
September 4, 20218:02 AM ET
In the spring of 2015, NPR sent a team to embed with Afghan forces to witness the start of a new era. A few months prior, the Afghan military regained control over the country after the U.S. and NATO forces officially ended their combat missions.
Rebecca Hersher was there as a producer, with reporter Tom Bowman, photojournalist David Gilkey, and Afghan interpreter Zabihullah “Zabi” Tamanna."So here we were ∈Kabul, “Hersher says,” and it’s this really weird time ∈Afghanistan where, ∈ theory, the Afghan government and military are ∈ charge, ∈a way they haven’t been for a really long time. But the war is definitely still going.”
After three tough weeks embedded with Afghan forces, Bowman returned as planned to the U.S., but Hersher and Gilkey decided to stay ∈Kabul a bit longer to look for a different, more positive perspective to mark the country’s transition. So they set out to interview the cheeriest group they could think of: children.
“It felt, honestly, like it had been like a tough few weeks ∈ terms of hope, “Hersher says.” And what better way to find that hope than speak to some kids? Tamanna found Tan-weer School ∈a lower-middle-class neighborhood ∈Kabul. The headmaster welcomed the team, and Gilkey set up cameras. Some of the teens spoke English and Tamanna in-terpreted for the younger kids. The children talked about their dreams. Many of them said they wanted to be leaders for a peaceful Afghanistan, whatever their careers may be. Most of the girls, even as teens, already had more education than their mothers did.
The result was an immersive multimedia essay, entitled “Teenage Dreams,” which pub-lished on NPR.com later ∈2015.
Watching the project now, ∈2021 — with U.S. forces recently gone, the Taliban ruling the country, with citizens and special immigrant visa holders desperately try to evacuate, and as bombs kill and maim dozens of people — it’s a bittersweet time capsule.
“It’s very hard to look at this project now and feel hopeful about where these kids’ lives are headed ∈Afghanistan, “Hersher says. It’s been six years, so the kids are now teens and young adults. "There is no peaceful Afghanistan, there is no democratic Afghani-stan,” Hersher says.” And the country’s collapsing around them.”
There’s another layer of sadness to viewing the project now, that’s not immediately apparent. Tamanna and Gilkey were killed the following year while on assignment ∈Afghani-stan’s Helmand Province. You can see Tamanna ∈ the “Teenage Dreams” video, wearing a blue shirt and directing the kids where to stand and where to look. And the beautiful visuals are quintessential Gilkey. “When I look at it from a personal place, “Hersher says,” what I see is the two of them doing really excellent work. And then a bunch of kids giving their honest selves to a bunch of strangers.”
And yet, there might still be a glimmer of hope to glean from watching the project now. “This is a new moment for the Taliban,” Hersher points out. “The population they are going to try to exert control over is very different.”
In particular, the women. The girls who were teens ∈2015 are now well-educated adults, says Hersher and “who knows what they will be able to do with that.”
And it wasn’t as if the Afghanistan of 2015 was ∈a peaceful state; the country felt bleak back then too, Hersher says. And yet, the kids had dreams and plans for successful, peaceful, and happy lives.
“It does make you wonder, there’s such upheaval at this moment. But ∈ two months or five months, what will it look like inside schoolyards?” says Hersher. “Will there be other kids who are expressing hope for their futures, despite everything?”
(Disponível em: < https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/09/04/1033500653/lessons-of-hope-from-afghan-schoolchildrensix-years-later>. Acesso em:)
Em 2021, ao refletir sobre o documentário filmado em 2015, a impressão de Rebecca Hersher sobre as então crianças, agora adolescentes e jovens adultos, que participaram do projeto cinematográfico, é de que
