Rare Girls

Munisa Giyoeva is from Khorog, and now living in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and is a Pharmaceutical Science student in her last year at Avicenna Tajik State Medical University.

Munisa loves reading books and making friends, she is an Active member of American Space Dushanbe, an Active member of AKHP debate club, and she delivered a presentation on Medicinal plants of Tajikistan in Central Asia at a Pharmaceutical conference.

Instagram: @mun1skaaa

Nozanin Homidjonova is from Khujand, Tajikistan.

Currently, she is a second year student at Polytechnic Institute of the Tajik Technical University named after M.S Osimi.

Her major is Technology and Information Systems in the Economy

Nozanin works with the Public Organization "Shams" which provides access to quality education for girls from removed areas of Tajikistan by using modern technologies.

Instagram: @noza_like

Sohee Riboss is from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and currently lives in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Sohee finished her Master's degree in International Management at University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach and currently works as a junior marketing manager.

Sohee loves badminton, drawing, dance, playing ukulele, photography, and personal improvement activities. She enjoys nature and long walks, deep conversations with people, music and watching movies.

Sohee is a graduate of Westminster University with 1st class honors, an Erasmus exchange scholarship holder, and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship holder.

Instagram: @avoriboss

Maria Badanova is a Middle Eastern Slavic girl living in Montenegro and studying at the tourist secondary school, but actually would prefer to study literature.

Masha also likes drawing, reading and singing. She acted in a theatre for 6 years and she is really passionate about it, although she doesn't do it right now.

Masha focuses on her personal growth and on developing and discovering her values throughout the years.

Instagram: @___forg

Feriel Zidane is from Algeria, and she studies in the Mathematical High School, the best school in her country.

Feriel is a programmer and a game developer.

She is also an artist and an online teacher of English.

She really loves learning languages.

Instagram: @ferielzidane

Sarah Lee Flageolle is from Quebec, Canada, currently studying criminology and psychology in University of Ottawa.

She works in rehabilitation for individuals with mental disabilities and she has many hobbies such as sports (volleyball/boxing/running/etc) adventures, outdoors, hiking and travelling.

Sarah Lee believes that achievements are very broad and subjective but one of her (tangible) achievement would be the acquisition of her IB Diploma from UWCEA, she studied in Tanzania for 2 years.

In a more subjective way, she is very proud of the work she has done on herself, her self-love and self-respect. She has improved herself and worked towards being the best version she can be. She is also proud that she is more lenient on herself, she used to have very high expectations that would set her up very easily for disappointment but now she appreciates every little thing she achieves and feels proud of it.

Instagram: @_sarraaaahhh_

Gulbegim Rahimjonova is from Khorog, Tajikistan.

She received a scholarship to Aga Khan Academdy in Kenya and graduated this year.

She took a gap year, working at finance right now and plans to study business administration.

Gulbegim enjoys singing, football, and reading. She has been involved in many things and had a uniprep course in Khorog @uniprep , football and environment CAS in Mombasa, Girl Up, Peace Summit, as well as mental health workshops.

Instagram: @rahimjonova_gul

Felicia Moiseenco is a Moldovan girl studying at “Mihai Eminescu” college.

Felicia likes to read, sing, draw and to listen to music. And she loves foreign languages such as English and Spanish.

She participated in a local council named “Dacia”, where they discussed about local problems and tried to make the life of teenagers and everyone better, by doing charity acts and different concerts to entertain people, and they solved a lot of problems.

At her current college, she participated in various seminars for human rights and gender equality. They also engaged with these seminars in different schools and presented their ideas about these topics and had very insightful discussions.

Felicia also participated in various events, such as: ”Ziua Mărului” and different competitions about Poetry recital and was part of various student olympics.

Instagram: @felicia_moiseenco

Alelei Vargas is originally from the Philippines and currently lives in Dubai.

Alelei studied Culinary Arts, worked as service crew in college, chef, admin, personal trainer, and now stretch coach;

Her hobbies are sports, crafts, goofing around with her dog, and partying

Alelei was able to tap into different industries and has successfully landed a job that she genuinely loves.

She believes one of the best achievements one can have is to be happy every single day when going to your workplace.

She battled her childhood asthma thru mountain climbing, sports, and now teaching flexibility classes like splits, and others.

Instagram: @aleleivargas

Louise Bergdahl is a Swedish girl, the first girl from Sweden on this podcast.

Currently, she lives in Dubai, and works as a sales executive for a Swedish company.

Loui grew up in a poor household and worked hard to live her dream life now in Dubai.

Instagram: @040.305