Iranian Entrepreneur Develops Online Platform for Afghan Girls’ Schooling
“The main motivation for launching the platform and online school titled, ‘We Can School’ is the issue of education for Afghan girls because girls from high school to university were deprived of education since the empowerment of the Taliban,” said Peymen Sarhaddi.
“We started building a platform so that Afghan girls can communicate with the best Persian language teachers in the world. These teachers voluntarily teach Afghan girls and these girls do not fall behind in the educational process with this method,” he added.
Sarhaddi said that Afghan girls can visit the website and register for free, enter the information of the educational level and required courses, noting, “We would like this platform to be dynamic and at the same time children can share their academic ability in different subjects.”
Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new academic year, but hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending classes as Taliban authorities ban their attendance in secondary school.
Education Minister Habibullah Agha confirmed in a statement that schools up to grade six “will currently be open for girls”, effectively retaining a ban on high school for female students.
The ban on girls’ secondary education came into effect in March last year, just hours after the education ministry reopened schools for both girls and boys. No Muslim-majority country bans women’s education.
Taliban leaders, who also banned women from university education in December, have repeatedly claimed they will reopen secondary schools for girls once “conditions” have been met, including remodelling the syllabus along Islamic lines.
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