Beauty Academy of Kabul: A Slide Talk by Rosemary Stasek October 6, 2006

Beauty Academy of Kabul: A Slide Talk by Rosemary Stasek will take place at the Belmont Library on Friday, October 6 at 7:00 pm and at the Woodside Library on October 12 at 7:00 pm.
Freedom is beautiful, but sometimes beauty is freedom. Recently returned from Afghanistan, Ms. Stasek will show current slides of the now famous Beauty Academy of Kabul. The Academy is composed of a group of hairdressers from Britain and the United States who go to Kabul on an unusual humanitarian mission -- to teach Afghan women, only recently liberated from the tyranny of the Taliban, how to cut hair. They are teaching women, who were banned from schools and the workplace under the Taliban, marketable skills (hairdressers make good money in Afghanistan), giving women the means to be independent. And finally, they are teaching the women to reclaim their public face and to help other women do the same.
This program is part of One Book, One Community: San Mateo County Reads The Kite Runner, and is free and open to all. The Belmont Library is located at 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont CA 94402 and the telephone number is 650-591-8286. The Woodside Library is located at 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside CA 94062 and the telephone number is 650-851-0147. For more information please contact the libraries.

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