Ep. 92 - Afghan Women Coding (Fereshteh Forough )

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Fereshteh Forough wanted to help women in Afghanistan. She knew that attaining education was difficult, let alone technical training. But she tackled these issues head on by starting the first coding school for women in Afghanistan.

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0:49.5	Today on the show, I'm so excited to have founder and CEO of Code to Inspire Farrashta Faru. Farrashta, you want to say hi? Hi, Saren. Thank you very much for having me in your podcast and hi to your listeners. Yeah, thank you so much for being on the show. I read a blog post about you. I remember where it was on, but I remember reading a blog post and thinking, man, I would love to have her on the show. And so I followed you on Twitter and then you followed me back and then you DM me and I said, yes, I didn't even have to ask. She reached out to me. This is so awesome. So I'm really excited to share your story with so many people. I think it'll be very inspiring. So thanks so much for making the time. Yeah, thanks for having
1:29.0	me. I'm also excited to share this story and make more awareness about what we're doing.
1:34.4	Yep. So you are the founder and CEO of Code to Inspire, which is a program to educate and train
1:42.3	women in Afghanistan, specifically to give them tech skills. And you have a
1:46.3	very, very interesting background yourself. You were an Afghan refugee in Iran. And then you got your
1:53.5	computer science degree in Germany, I believe. And now you're based in New York City. So we have
1:57.9	lots of stuff to talk about. But let's start by having you tell us a little bit
2:01.8	more about Code to Inspire. Sure. Yeah. So yeah, thank you very much for covering the background.
2:09.7	So based on my background, borning as an Afghan refugee in Iran, after the Taliban regime
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