Frahnaz Mohammadi managed to flee to Germany and wants to help those left behind. She runs online customer relations training courses to help women find remote work from their homes and circumvent the Taliban's restrictions.
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00:00 The voices of her trainees keep Farahnaz Mohammadi focused.
00:06 She gives online job training to Afghan women who are still in the country.
00:10 Farahnaz fled from Afghanistan to Berlin after the Taliban took power in August 2021.
00:16 The reason why I have started this initiative, I was imagining me back in my country, how
00:23 I would feel hopeless, helpless.
00:28 Women have been banned from most professions and barred from attending universities under
00:32 the Taliban.
00:33 It has exacerbated other problems, female suicides and forced marriage.
00:38 How is life under the Taliban's rule?
00:44 Every day restrictions against women increase.
00:47 Cases of women's suicide are on the rise.
00:50 Our only hope now is online studying and online work.
00:57 Farahnaz trains women in customer relations to make them attractive talent for Western
01:02 companies.
01:03 Working from home would be a way to circumvent Taliban's restrictions.
01:07 We will give them the skills and the education they need.
01:11 We could stop forced marriage in Afghanistan as well by empowering and supporting women
01:18 to become the income source of the family.
01:23 Farahnaz is one of more than 30,000 Afghans who sought refuge in Germany following the
01:28 Taliban's seizure of power.
01:30 But her homeland is still on her mind.
01:35 I feel they are forgotten, the women especially.
01:39 My wish is to be connected with Afghanistan as much as I could and help them from here.
01:47 With the Taliban's grip on power, Afghan women like Farahnaz are uniting remotely to defend
01:52 their freedoms.
01:53 (birds chirping)