ayub, awista

Details the efforts of the author who established a soccer clinic for Afghan women to instill them with hope after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, which has since grown allow hundreds of Afghan girls to compete in the Afghanistan Football Federation.

Describes how the Afghan-born author flourished throughout her upbringing in America thanks to organized athletics, her founding of the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange for Afghan girls after the fall of the Taliban, and the personal stories of eight young soccer players.