What Tomorrow Brings
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Beth Murphy founded Principle Pictures in 1999 to do what she loves doing most: meeting inspiring people, telling great stories, and using media as a catalyst for good. She has directed, produced, written and in some cases narrated nearly 20 documentary films for national and international media outlets.
Much of Afghanistan's future will depend on whether its girls can read or not. What Tomorrow Brings is both an indictment of how tenuous access to education still is in Afghanistan and a moving depiction of Afghan girls and their teachers pursuing learning at all costs. —Heather Barr, senior researcher, Women's Rights Division
Afghanistan's Taliban government banned girls from school. When the Taliban was toppled in 2001, the new Afghan government and its donors began the enormous project of recreating an educational system for girls. Fourteen years later, millions of girls attend school, but the project is far from complete. Less than half of Afghan girls are in school, and dropout rates are extremely high. Girls struggle to study in the face of attacks on schools, students, and teachers by insurgents, poverty, child marriage, and a lack of skilled teachers, safe buildings, books, and even basic facilities – at a moment when donor funding and interest is fading fast.