The Wild and Curious Podcast Episode 008: Fereshteh Forough of Code to Inspire

Fereshteh Forough opened the first coding school for girls in Afghanistan in 2015. In Afghanistan, women are often left to care for the home so parents don’t want to put as much emphasis on (or money into) education for girls, and sometimes they simply can’t afford it. CTI gives young girls the chance to learn coding and game development at no cost, which opens a world of job opportunities and helps in the fight for social, political, and economic equality. Fereshteh talks about how she got into coding, life for women in Afghanistan, and how people have responded to CTI.
You can find out more about Code to Inspire on their website at codetoinspire.org, or on Instagram at codetoinspire
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The Wild and Curious Podcast explores what it's like to be a woman in the world, all around the world by highlighting stories from womxn everywhere. Cohosts Theresa Christine and Suzanne Schmedding are Craigslist roommates turned globetrotting best friends. With backgrounds in travel writing and education, respectively, they sit down with extraordinary womxn worldwide to discuss the ways they're breaking barriers and helping their local communities.