I created The Believers to empower Afghan youth especially girls through online platforms as the primary education was banned due to gender restrictions in Afghanistan. In only a year of activity, we could successfully bring a change in 300+ lives by online courses in English, Computer, Digital Literacy, and Art, have a community of 1300+, and reach an audience of 5K.
My innovation is a digital community/academy that offers free online classes, programs, and workshops. However, I want to make it an in-person community where my help can reach to people and students who do not have access to a stable internet or at all and that is why I am planning to reach to global communities to assist me in this goal. I want those children, youth, and elders to learn what they could not in the past and that too in ease.
I first started it on WhatsApp platform where I asked my friends to help me out and be a volunteer instructor and teach the students. Once I got a hang of 5 instructors, I made a Google form through which 100 students applied from Afghanistan. After the first round, the students were happy with our academy, so they advertised us to their friends and family and that helped us get more volunteers for teaching and background. In the last round of applications, we got over 1000 applications from countries like AFG, PAK, IR, TAK, TUK, and USA by which we got international volunteers from North America, Africa and Spain through the students' network.
You can just send us a message on our social media (preferably WhatsApp) to add you into our community and then wait for the applications to be opened for the next round. However, for our short-term programs, we will instantly send you a link to fill out and be in the waiting list.
