Crypto Actually Fixes This: How Code to Inspire Uses Crypto in Afghanistan Unchained

Fereshteh Forough is the founder and CEO of Code to Inspire, a coding school for girls in Afghanistan. She discusses her background as a refugee, how she uses crypto to fund the school and pay students, and how the US military’s departure has affected student life. Topics include:
Fereshteh’s journey from refugee to computer science professor to founder and CEO of Code to Inspire
what Code to Inspire offers to young Afghan women and what risks they take by getting an education
how Code to Inspire success stories are changing the attitudes of student’s families and communities
the importance of Afghan Hero Girl, a video game created by Code to Inspire students
why crypto payments are a better alternative to PayPal and Western Union for Code to Inspire and its students
how Code to Inspire and its students exchange crypto to fiat
what the perception of crypto is in Afghanistan
how the Taliban is stifling the education of women and how Code to Inspire is attempting to continue its curriculum
how crypto companies can offer assistance to Code to Inspire
what features and products Fereshteh thinks would the crypto industry actually bank the unbanked
how listeners can help Code to Inspire and where to find more information on Fereshteh

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Episode Links
 
Fereshteh Forough
Twitter: https://twitter.com/f_forough

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fereshtehforough/ 
 
Code to Inspire
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codetoinspire/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodeToInspire 
Website: https://www.codetoinspire.org/ 
Donating crypto: https://www.codetoinspire.org/donate-crypto/ 
Services offered:

https://www.codetoinspire.org/hire-a-cti-graduate/ 

 
Code to Inspire Coverage
Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021/08/17/taliban-resurgence-could-threaten-afghan-school-teaching-women-to-code-and-build-ethereum-apps/?sh=465a8208197d

The Giving Block
https://thegivingblock.com/donate/Code-to-Inspire/

Code to Inspire students are coding at home

https://cointelegraph.com/news/amid-taliban-takeover-aspiring-crypto-miner-flees-afghanistan 

CoinDesk on Code to Inspire + ETH

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/06/12/forget-prices-ethereum-is-offering-a-different-value-in-afghanistan/ 

Coinbase
https://blog.coinbase.com/fereshteh-forough-interview-1e73a684788f

Inverse
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/57129-fereshteh-forough-afghanistan-bitcoin

Afghan Hero Girls
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-19-code-to-inspire-is-creating-afghan-hero-girls-through-education

 
US Military leaving Afghanistan
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-withdrawal-united-states-troops-pentagon/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/last-u-s-troops-leave-afghanistan-after-nearly-20-years-11630355853 

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