“Afghan women are capable of everything”: The country’s all-girls robotics team discuss an uncertain future - Rest of World
were gunned down earlier this year. In May, explosions outside of a high school in Kabul killed at least 90 people, many of them teenage girls returning home after class.
My dream for the future is to have a free and developed Afghanistan. The thing I am proud of is that all our team members are below 18 years old. We have been able to participate in the biggest international competitions and conferences. The U.S. forces’ withdrawal has affected the morale of all members of the society, has caused more concerns in women of different fields, and has made them worried about deprivation of liberty of education and work. The biggest hurdle that we have to overcome is the ideology of the traditional community of Afghanistan. We want to change it in regards to girls and women, and, fortunately, I think to some extent, our team was successful in suppressing this ideology.
I use the internet for educational purposes. For example, I use the internet to search about coding, new robots, new technology in the world, and new inventions and discoveries. I think older people mostly use it for communication. When I joined the team, I knew nothing about programming, but now I know many programming languages, including Java and Python. The change I see in myself is that I have become more responsible, my confidence level has increased. I gained experience and became the captain of the robotics team. I am proud that all the girls in our team are below 18 years old. I am proud that we were able to bring great achievements to our country that is famous for war and insecurity.
When our team went to other countries and participated in competitions, I noticed that other countries had a lot of equipment and many laboratories. This was interesting for me, and I wish that we had similar equipment and laboratories in Afghanistan, so we could work on our robots in a more advanced manner.
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