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Some students' letters
My name is Amir Mohammad and I am 13 and have a six-year-old sister. After my father died, my mother left us so she could remarry. My sister and I live with our stepsister, her husband and their children. Our house has three rooms. My sister and I share one room, for which we have to pay rent. I attend Bakhtar Middle School and am lucky because I don’t have to pay fees there. After school each day, I work in a tailoring shop until midnight, so my sister and I can have some money. It is so tiring. After the shop, I go home to bed, so I can get up early for school again. I know I am lucky to receive my education for free, so there is no problem there. But it is also true that that I have to work hard to earn money for our rent and food. I must be a father and a mother for my little sister and provide her with clothes and food. And I must pay attention to her and give her love. My life is full of tension, sorrow, struggle and tears because we don’t have peaceful, restful, comfortable life like other children. We are also human and want a life full of happiness, good economy, and being things beside parents.
My name is Gull Mena. I am a student in the first class of Jamilla Abassy’s Bakhtar Middle School.
My father died in the war in Afghanistan war, which is why we are refugees in Pakistan. I have mother and two younger brothers.
We live very far from Bakhtar School, maybe about 5kms. But every morning, my mother, brothers and I walk there. It takes 45 minutes. We cannot afford to take the bus.
While we are at school, my mother works as a servant in a Pakistani home. I don’t like walking this far to school, but at least my brothers and I don’t have to pay fees to go there. For this, I am thankful to our principal Jamilla and our teachers.
The biggest barrier to my education has been solved, the issue of paying fees, but I do sometimes have problems paying for notebooks, textbooks and pencils.
I know that the only way to solve our problems is through education, which is why I will do whatever it takes to go to school.