As the Taliban tightens its ban on women’s education, thousands of Afghan women are turning to online platforms to continue learning.
Among them is Sodaba, a 24-year-old former pharmacology student who now learns coding through Afghan Geeks, an initiative by refugee-turned-tech mentor Murtaza Jafari. Based in Greece, Jafari teaches 28 Afghan women programming—entirely online and in their native Dari—empowering them to seek remote jobs in a country where work opportunities for women have all but disappeared.
Meanwhile, Vision Online University, founded by 20-year-old Zuhal, has grown from five volunteers to 150 staff and over 4,000 female students across Afghanistan, offering free courses from nursing to Quranic studies.
Despite no funding, both initiatives offer one vital resource: hope.
Source: Agency