10 girls from the Afghan Girl's Robotics Team were successfully transferred from Kabul to Qatar to the US last week, with work still underway to rescue another 25 team members. Currently Afghani women are being advised to burn anything that showcases academic or athletic prowess.https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/568760-amazing-story-of-heroic-us-mom-rescuing-afghan-all-girls-roboticsI reached out to colleagues at CITRIS to see if the UC's could help with the efforts to extract and protect women in robotics in Afghanistan and learned about UC Davis Article 26 Backpack, which allows academics and professionals to upload their professional credentials to a secure cloud managed by UC Davis that will protect academic records. Article 26 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Backpack is designed to solve challenges like these for refugees and other populations of vulnerable young people by empowering them to best share with universities, scholarship agencies, and even employers their educational background, employment history and goals. This services is free and available to all. The information is available in Dari/Farsi https://globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/a26backpack
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10 girls from the Afghan Girl's Robotics Team were successfully transferred from Kabul to Qatar to the US last week, with work still underway to rescue another 25 team members. Currently Afghani women are being advised to burn anything that showcases academic or athletic prowess.https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/568760-amazing-story-of-heroic-us-mom-rescuing-afghan-all-girls-roboticsI reached out to colleagues at CITRIS to see if the UC's could help with the efforts to extract and protect women in robotics in Afghanistan and learned about UC Davis Article 26 Backpack, which allows academics and professionals to upload their professional credentials to a secure cloud managed by UC Davis that will protect academic records. Article 26 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Backpack is designed to solve challenges like these for refugees and other populations of vulnerable young people by empowering them to best share with universities, scholarship agencies, and even employers their educational background, employment history and goals. This services is free and available to all. The information is available in Dari/Farsi https://globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/a26backpack