Despite residing beneath the Taliban’s grip, 4 Afghan women have gained scholarships to study at Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. The girls have been chosen primarily based on their educational data, and willpower to advertise women’s participation in Afghan society. The government director of the Thai Pipe Industry informed the Bangkok Post the women will be role fashions and mentors to women of their fields in Afghanistan, and around the globe. The government director mentioned the scholarships will change lives.
“… the life of the scholarship recipients, the lives of the folks of their households, and finally the lives of other people in society”.
The president of AIT stated the university needed to help the ladies when it heard they confronted challenges getting the next training. She said AIT was able to find donors for the scholarships who also cared concerning the women’s futures. AIT awarded them the scholarships on International Women’s Day this week.
The Thai Pipe Industry, Osotpa Public Co, and the CEO of Christiani Nielson Energy Solutions, are sponsoring the scholarships.
Since seizing power of Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban has halted two critical decades of progress for women’s rights in Afghanistan. The Taliban stated at first that they’d allow women to go to school. While Classified for girls reopened, very few schools for older girls did..