Nineteen female Afghan students arrived in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, to continue their medical studies with the help of the Linda Norgrove Charitable Foundation.

These students had been deprived of the chance to continue their education in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021.

The Linda Norgrove Charitable Foundation wrote in a statement that the students were transferred to the UK from Kabul, Maidan Wardak, Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces via Pakistan.

The foundation said that it had moved the girls to Scotland after three years of work.
Zahra Hussaini, 19, who completed her first year of medical school after the Taliban’s return to power, said that she hopes her home will be safe until she returns to Afghanistan.

The Linda Norgrove Charitable Foundation was established by the parents of an aid worker named Linda Norgrove, who was kidnapped and then killed in Kunar province in 2010, to help Afghan girls.

The Taliban have closed girls' schools above the sixth grade and have banned girls from going to university.