Afghan Dreamers:The teenage girls' robotics team how did manage to escape the Taliban

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Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrad greets 'Afghan Dreamers' at Mexico City Airport

Afghanistan's 'Afghan Dreamers' were once a ray of hope for women in the country.

This is a group of 20 teenage girls between the ages of 13 and 18 who formed the first female robotics team in a country where the advancement of science was never valued and opportunities for women were even less.

However, the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan on August 15 jeopardized all their achievements. The Taliban imposed severe restrictions on women's education and employment during their last government in the 1990s.

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans, like 'Afghan Dreamers', have had to flee their country for fear of sanctions and harsh treatment by the Taliban and have sought refuge in other countries.

Similarly, five founding members of the 'Afghan Dreamers' robotics team: Fatima Qadrian, Lida Azizi, Kausar Roshan, Maryam Roshan and Sagar Salehi have managed to take temporary refuge in Mexico last Tuesday after crossing a sea of   six countries and bureaucracies.

'A world of gender equality'

The girls are part of a larger Afghan refugee group that will arrive in Mexico and other Latin American countries in the coming days. Upon his arrival in Mexico, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard tweeted, "Welcome, they are part of Afghanistan's robotics team and they are striving for a dream of a world of gender equality."


Mexico also hosts large numbers of Afghan journalists and students

According to the Mexican government, the girls have been granted visas on humanitarian grounds, which will allow them to stay in Mexico for six months and could be extended. They will be provided free accommodation and food with the help of various agencies.

Appreciating the government's move, human rights groups have criticized the Mexican government for treating immigrants on the US-Mexico border worse than the way Afghan girls have been treated. And often these migrants are sent back to their home countries without being allowed to enter the country and many people are also subjected to ill-treatment and torture.

Who are these girls


The Afghan Dreamers robotics team won a special award in an international competition in 2017

Afghan Dreamers was founded four years ago by Roya Mehboob, the owner of a technology company that runs a digital citizen fund.

It is an American non-governmental organization that helps women and girls in developing countries access technology and subjects such as science, engineering, math, and robotics.

The project was based in the northern Afghan province of Herat to promote science among women and empower women in a country where their role in society was very limited during the Taliban era.

Shortly after the group was formed, they began to gain worldwide attention in 2017 when they won a special award at the International Robotics Championships in Washington, DC.

Winning this award was amazing because not only did she come from a country where women and girls are deprived of their basic rights, but she also went through many difficulties to reach the United States.

This is the first time anyone from Afghanistan has done so since being allowed to participate in the competition. He traveled more than 800 kilometers by land from Herat to the US embassy in Kabul.

When she arrived, the US embassy refused to grant her a visa, she tried again and was denied again. He was allowed to come to the United States with the special permission of the then US President Donald Trump. But getting a US visa did not end their problems.

Just days before her arrival in Washington, the Afghan government confiscated all the materials she intended to use in the contest. When the teens finally arrived in Washington, the American press focused on them because of all the obstacles they encountered.

Coping with the Code 19 epidemic


After that, these teenage girls also became famous in Afghanistan. When the Corona epidemic broke out last year, they worked with a team of doctors, engineers and educators to find a solution to the challenge.

Herat faced a shortage of artificial respiration machines.

The group of young girls, Afghan Dreamers, proposed a plan to develop artificial respiration machines using the design of engineers and car spare parts from the American University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

After approval of the prototype by American experts, they started working on it. Many girls worked on it while fasting because of the month of Ramadan.



The group of young girls, Afghan Dreamers, proposed a plan to develop artificial respiration machines using the design of engineers and car spare parts from the American University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Due to social distance, they had to work on i

alone. Some of them were found only when the different parts of the machine had to be assembled on which they worked separately.

Some of these girls were also affected by Corona.

Withdrawal from Afghanistan

As 'Afghan Dreamers' became very popular internationally and domestically. Many of these girls were born after 2001, when the Taliban were ousted by the United States following the 9/11 attacks.

After the conservative Islamic group gained power, the girls feared possible possible sanctions. After several failed attempts to leave the country, nine members of the group managed to reach Qatar with the help of the Digital Citizen Fund.

Elizabeth Schaefer Brown, board member of the Digital Citizens Fund, told the BBC: "When we heard that Kabul had been captured, we contacted the Qatari Foreign Ministry and they immediately contacted Accelerated the issuance of visas for deportation.

He then learned that Mexico had accepted his asylum application. "They not only saved our lives but also the dreams we are trying to fulfill," the girls told a news conference after arriving in Mexico City.

Our story will not end badly


He explained in a press conference that since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, "conditions have not been favorable for them."

The girls are having a hard time in this government, It would be difficult. they are grateful to be here." 

 The girls said. we hope the end of our story will not be bad  Because of the Taliban

According to media reports, the girls have already been offered scholarships by several American universities.

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