More than 100 Fulbright alumni are trapped in Afghanistan, while another 119 scholars are struggling through the program with no idea of what happens next.
Nasrin Nawa, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an Afghan Fulbright Scholar in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Tuesday.last August, 119 new Afghan Fulbright scholars were just leaving for their new academic posts in the United States.
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program that is sponsored by the U.S. government and designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people in other countries. Up until the Taliban takeover, thehad been one of the largest U.S. investments in education in Afghanistan. Since 2001, 970 Afghan Fulbright scholars have come to study in the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Most of the Fulbright alumni held high-ranking positions in the previous government, including ministers and deputy ministers, and at international organizations, putting them in vulnerable positions under Taliban rule.that the United Nations had received “credible allegations” that more than 100 former members of the Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since August.
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