KABUL, Afghanistan — Teenager Fatima Noori and her fellow pupils hug and pray as they gather in their Kabul classroom, just weeks after bombs exploded right outside the school gates, killing scores of their classmates.
The Sayed Ul-Shuhada High School in the west of the city has remained closed since the May 8 bombings, but a local NGO and the Ministry of Public Health have been holding psychotherapy classes there for girls to help with any trauma.
“When I first entered the school (after the blast) to attend the psychotherapy class, I was very scared and worried that the same incident might happen again,” 15-year-old Fatima told Reuters last month. “I even fainted ne…
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