Fereshteh Forough and Roya Mahboob: Co-Founders of the Women's Annex Foundation Talk Bitcoin
Last Monday night at the Bitcoin Center of New York City, the room was filled with reverence towards the presenters Roya Mahboob and Fereshteh Forough as they shared their experiences in creating the Women's Annex in Afghanistan and their integration with Bitcoin to facilitate their mission of education and empowering women in their area. What is the Women's Annex Foundation? The Women's Annex Foundation is an organization that seeks to help increase digital literacy and further education using technology. They operate in Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan and Mexico and aim to connect women and....
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BitLanders, formerly known as the Film Annex, is a social media site that pays its users in Bitcoin. It first came to my attention earlier this year when I was planning to write a profile on Roya Mahboob and Fereshteh Forough, co-founders of the Women's Annex (At the time, it was still named the Film Annex). The Film Annex was started in 2006 by Italian entrepreneur Francesco Rulli with the aims of providing film makers a site to promote their work and help fund their projects with a shared advertising model. This model would soon inspire Mahboob and Forough in 2012 when they founded the....
Bitcoin has emerged as a pioneering philanthropy tool essentially because it removes all the middlemen and hence, provides more end-value to the receiver. Several leading non-profits have also started embracing Bitcoin as a mode of soliciting donations. And now it has been learnt that the digital currency has become 'a beacon of hope' for the afghan girls. Fereshteh Forough, a founder member of the Afghanistan-based non-governmental organization Digital Citizen Fund (earlier called Women's Annex Foundation), is passionately working in the field of women empowerment. Formally the first....
Fereshteh Forough’s project, Code to Inspire (CTI), is teaching women in Afghanistan how to write software, use computers and possibly get employment from the world wide web. Bitcoin.com spoke with Forough on how technology and the CTI project is opening up new opportunities for women in the region that simply didn’t exist before. Learning any skill set....
One nonprofit organization is going above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to empowering underprivileged women in Afghanistan. Code to Inspire (CTI), led by founder Fereshteh Forough, started an after-school program in January 2015 followed in November of the same year by the opening of its first coding school for girls in Herat, Afghanistan. Forough's aim was to empower half of the Afghanistan population through education to improve the economy, while putting underserved women on a path to financial independence. Currently providing a safe educational environment for 50 female....
Code to Inspire just launched an Indiegogo campaign for the first coding center in Afghanistan of women, for women, by women, with the goal of prepping Afghan girls for careers in programming. A chunk of the curriculum focuses on digital currencies like bitcoin. The girls learn by doing. Code to Inspire provides the girls with books, computers, and other resources to teach them how to code. The girls dream up a problem and then design mobile apps or software that can tackle it. So where does bitcoin come into play? “Crypto currencies are an amazing and empowering tool for people who are....