A woman of courage who deserves to be remembered for her bravery

Ehsan, Elyas, and Yesna wait for their mother who left her house on a spring day and never came back. In the absence of their mother, their lives seem like a routine shuttered business. “Your mother is in heaven and she watches you all the time,” Muharram Ali, the father of three children, replies when his children ask about their mother.

On May 12, Maryam Noorzad, a nurse at Barchi maternity hospital, left her house for the hospital. Hours later on the same day, armed gunmen stormed into the hospital, opened fire at nurses, mothers, and new-born babies. 24 civilians along with Maryam Noorzad were killed in the attack.