Afghanistan's economic collapse due to US sanctions and a shortage of cash as the Taliban chokes of bank withdrawals means millions of people can't af

Impoverished Afghan women are receiving emergency aid in crypto as the Taliban limits cash withdrawals and millions go hungry

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2022-01-23 14:00:05

Afghanistan's economic collapse due to US sanctions and a shortage of cash as the Taliban chokes of bank withdrawals means millions of people can't afford to buy food or medicine. 

But Fereshteh Forough, a New Hampshire-based Afghan social activist and founder of Code to Inspire, has devised an inventive workaround to help support needy students at her Herat coding school.

Forough set up the Code to Inspire school in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2015, to educate the city's young women about computer programming and becoming financially independent.

It was a success. Forough told Insider that more than 350 female students learned how to code, and close to 65% of graduates found jobs in their communities — many becoming their household's sole earner.

"The girls texted me that all of them had lost their jobs because of the Taliban's policies," Forough said. "And as the sole breadwinners, their families were falling apart."

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