Jahan Taab, a 25-year-old woman from Miramar district in Afghanistan, was taking the entrance exam for a university social science course when her two-month-old baby started crying.

Rather than leave the exam, Taab sat down on the floor and held her baby close to her while she finished the paper. Struck by the scene, a lecturer who was invigilating the test took a photo of Taab and her baby and posted it on Facebook.

“She has a baby in her arms, a pen and a bright future ahead,” he wrote. “The child is screaming, screaming, screaming, but the mother was sitting on the soil and still thirstily writing the answers to the exam questions.”

Taab, who has two other children, travelled six to eight hours to take the exam at Nasirkhosraw Higher Education Institute in the central Afghan city of Nilli. She passed the test with 152 points.

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