Little Girl's Future

We were driving back from KMTC the other night and there was this cute little Afghan girl hanging out the back window of her father's car. We both were stuck in traffic and I saw her for several minutes as we passed her car and then she passed us. I thought about what kind of future was in store for her over the next fifteen years or so here in Kabul.

It was rush hour--about 1700 hours in the afternoon. Many people were out shopping, but it was predominantly men. I saw very few women shopping in the bakeries, none in the electronics stores, none in the small shops bordering the highway--very few women on the street. I saw many young girls below the age of say ten, but no teenagers, no young working women, no women in the streets. How different.

What does the future hold for the cute, four year old girl who was hanging out the car window of her father's car?