It was mid-day on August 13 when 23-year-old health worker Homeira Nawrozi, who owned a library for women in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, heard the news of Taliban entering the city. She quickly closed her library. But when she returned with her brother the next day to take the books home, she found that all the windows had been shattered and some books were damaged. “Right now, the women need us to give them a book to read at a time when the doors of schools are closed for them,” she says.