This is The Guardian.

Today, a year since the fall of Kabul,

how life has been transformed for Afghan women and girls.

The Guardian

There's something incredibly emotional about walking into a building in Afghanistan now,

where teenage girls are studying high school.

It should be the most normal thing in the world.

But in Afghanistan now it's illegal.

Immigrayam Harrison is a senior international correspondent with The Guardian.

She's been in Afghanistan where teenage girls can't go to school anymore, at least officially.

I went to several different schools, different types of places where adults were trying to keep girls studying.

In each time I went into one, I'm someone who tries to keep my emotions out of my reporting when I'm working.

But I found it almost overwhelming.

There is something both utterly inspiring and heart breaking about seeing girls.

And their teachers go about something which should be so very ordinary.

And yet now in Afghanistan is dangerous and illegal.

How did they feel when they heard that the new government had brought a ban for girls from their grades,

grades 7 to 12? What was their feeling when they heard that news?

It's not a good feeling because we know we have to get a education for our future in Afghanistan.

Be, be, be.

A year ago, just days after Western militaries pulled out of the country, the Taliban returned to power.

It was the end of two decades of war and for millions of girls and women, the end of a whole way of life.

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