Girls in Afghanistan can’t pursue education past sixth grade. Rules continue to become harsher under the Taliban, with women unable to leave their homes alone.
BOULDER, Colorado — A woman from Boulder is behind a nonprofit launched in the past year and a half, designed to offer education opportunities when most all are banned to girls and women in Afghanistan.
Voices Unveiled has worked to provide women with courses focused on self-empowerment while also teaching them hard skills like computer programming, data analysis and English. They also work to provide mental health resources and emergency funds.
“At the end of 2022, I asked Afghan refugee women who I knew in New York, I asked, ‘What is the most important thing you would ask of American citizens right now to support women in Afghanistan?’ The answer was teach something online, because the women there feel so forgotten and isolated, and suicide and depression …