Study opportunities for young Afghan women - tablets and internet access

Until December 2022, female students in Afghanistan were able to attend university lectures, but now women are excluded from university entrance exams.
Accordingly, female students are now generally banned from universities back home and our female students are denied access to their university, Parwan University in Charikar.
This is particularly tragic for female students who have already started their studies and now have to interrupt them indefinitely.
This means that most are at home in Charikar, some in their home regions up to 700km away.
Without access to education, the already bleak future of women in Afghanistan looks even bleaker, especially as girls are not allowed to attend school from secondary school onwards. There would be no offspring, so to speak, and thus lost generations, as women make up 50% of Afghan society.

DAI's Shomali Student Project (SSP) aims to give female students the opportunity to continue or start their studies at an online university by providing them with tablets and internet access.
DAI also networks with IT professionals to train the female students on how to use software to bypass internet barriers.  

Fourteen (14) of the female students are currently supported through sponsorships of €30 per month. However, this barely covers the purchase of the tablets (approx. 400€ net) and internet access (approx. 17€ net/month). 
At the board meeting in January 2023 it was:
-resolved that the equipment should initially be distributed on loan and become the property of the students after successful completion,
-Suggested that progress be regularly monitored (certifications, evidence) to ensure proper use of the tablets.
Decided to review the project after one year if the technology is successfully implemented/distributed, i.e. to first base the funding on a 12-month period. 

Our staff member on site in Charikar maintains contact with the female students and coordinates the distribution of the technology.
In addition, a member of the DAI will fly to Afghanistan in February and try to get more information about the current situation of the female students, possibly in direct talks. 
We have already received pledges for slightly more than half of the sum, and we are confident that we will be able to finance the remaining part through donations. If we receive more donations, we will be able to offer further female students of Parwan University the possibility of further education and secure the costs for internet access for a longer period of time. 
Please be generous. On behalf of the DAI Board, I extend my warmest regards to you, Johannes Nickel.