Approximately 7,000 school bags donated by children from all over Japan have arrived in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are in power and the turmoil continues.
A Japanese NGO in support wants Tullivan to deliver a message through school bags that "girls should learn the same as boys," saying there are concerns that women's right to education may be restricted.
Since 2004, Japan's international cooperation NGO "Joyceph" has been collecting school bags for sixth graders who graduate from elementary schools all over the country every year and donating them to children in Afghanistan.
This time around 7,000 were donated in July, but the Taliban took control of the capital Kabul last month, and although they arrived at the port of neighboring Pakistan, they were worried that they would reach the site safely.
According to Joysef, he subsequently arrived in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, on the 13th with permission from the Taliban's interim government.
In the future, school bag is supposed to be distributed to schools in Afghanistan to prospect the middle of next month.
However, the Taliban has severely restricted women's right to education in the past, and Wakako Kai of "Joy Sef" said, "Because of the change in the Taliban's administration, girls can learn in the same way as boys. The local people also feel that it is a pure message that Japanese children gave to their friends in Afghan. "