Activists call on Canada to help Afghan women facing deportation due to Trump administration cuts [Video]

On a sunny Tuesday morning in Vancouver, Hela Sedeqi stands outside the school she’s attended since September, after arriving in Canada last summer. 

Sedeqi, 19, had missed several years of schooling in her home country, Afghanistan. She’s now finishing Grade 11 at Crofton House School, an elite private school.  

But with recent funding cuts under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, she worries other Afghan women like her won’t have the same chance to get a formal education. 

She says having the opportunity to learn far away from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has changed her life and fears for other women who have received U.S.-funded scholarships that are expected to be terminated this summer.

“It’s heartbreaking. Imagining myself in that position terrifies me,” Sedeqi told CBC News.

More than 120 Afghan women are set to lose their scholarships funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which had allowed them to attend …