Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working with Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF to ...
The first international robotics competition for high schoolers made headlines before it even started — and after the event was over as well. First there was the story of the all-girl Afghanistan team ...
Huddled around a small table in the halls of a cavernous Washington concert hall, a group of Afghan teenage girls tweak gears and sprockets on their radio-controlled robot, hoping to best the ...
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Meet the Afghan girls building robots at home after the Taliban stopped their education
This article first appeared on our partner site, Independent Persian In the sweltering heat of Kabul, a group of young women, who have been barred from higher education for the past three years, ...
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Meet the Afghan Girls Building Robots at Home After Being Barred from School by the Taliban
Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, a group of young women from the former Afghan robotics team is fighting back against oppressive restrictions by building robots in secret ...
A robotics team comprised of six girls from Afghanistan is taking part in an international competition after clearing visa obstacles that prompted intervention from President Donald Trump. Teams from ...
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