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An Afghan woman who has worked as a civil servant, campaigner, management consultant and poet in both Afghanistan and Britain has been recognised for her work to empower women and create jobs. Seema Ghani won the Bond Outstanding Individual Award, an international development award, on Monday in London. The daughter of an army officer, she fled Afghanistan with her family in the 1990s during the country’s civil war, before pursuing a career as a consultant in London. After the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, she decided to come home to help rebuild her country in 2002. Wanting to help her country’s war orphans, Ghani adopted 16 Afghan children aged 3 to 17 as a single woman. — Reuters
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