“The past four decades prove that Afghan women are some of the strongest women in the world,” begins Farida. In a country that has faced constant conflict spanning over 50 years, Afghan women, like 50-year-old Farida, have displayed remarkable strength and resilience each day. Farida first left her homeland, Afghanistan, for Russia in 1996 when her youngest child was only four months old. Soon she suddenly had to flee to Russia, and she eventually came to the UK in 2000, where she remains today. Central Kabul had been taken over by the Taliban after the Afghan-Soviet war had decimated parts of…