When she and her family ended up in a refugee camp in Pakistan in 1992 after fleeing the civil war in Afghanistan, she was shocked at what she found. None of the girls went to school. So she changed that. 23 years later, she’s educated more than 1,000 refugee girls and because of her work, she’s been awarded UNHCR’s prestigious 2015 Nansen Refugee Award. Here, she describes how she convinced a whole community that educating girls was worthwhile and shares how she went about changing minds.