#code to inspire

Fereshteh Forough grew up as a refugee, but she learned to become a computer programmer. And she wants to give other Afghan girls that opportunity. So she founded Code to Inspire, a nonprofit that operates a school for female students to learn how to code at a school in Herat, Afghanistan.

The school opened in 2015, and it has taught more than 150 female students how to code. They find programming work in areas like web development, game development, mobile app development, and graphic design. So far, 25 girls have graduated from the program. The goal is to empower a new generation of female tech leaders who can contribute to a foundation for peace in the war-torn country.

Code To Inspire is a non-profit organization for female empowerment and encouragement in the field of computer coding in Afghanistan. Its focus is on school girls who are interested in computer science, and its aim is to pave the ground for University female students who are majoring in computer science.

They’ve been doing this for 2 year now. They are teaching Unity,graphic design, and web…

Le programmatrici informatiche afghane che stanno sfidando gli stereotipi di genere, di Kirstie Brewer, da me tradotto e rielaborato

  Nella città di Herat nell’Afghanistan occidentale un piccolo ma determinato contingente di giovani donne sta silenziosamente imparando la programmazione informatica. Diventano più potenti, creative e fiduciose ogni giorno, dice Fereshteh Forough, che ha creato il programma dopo la scuola “Code to Inspire”, la prima scuola per programmatrici informatiche, nel novembre 2015.

“La bellezza della…

Afghan women find empowerment in code and bitcoin

Welcome to Afghanistan in 2015. It’s been thirteen years since the fall of the Taliban regime, which left behind it a crumbling economy, and social structures struggling to protect the nations’ most vulnerable. In a population of  31 million, 85% of the nations’ women have no formal education, making up barely 15% of the workforce. I spoke with Fereshteh Forough, in one of the most humbling…