Crypto Actually Fixes This: How Code to Inspire Uses Crypto in Afghanistan - Ep.276

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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