Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes

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Afghan girls and women are going online as a last resort to get around the Taliban administration's restrictions on studying and working. But they face a host of problems from power cuts to cripplingly slow internet speeds

"Can you hear me?" she asks repeatedly, checking her connection."As usual," a fellow student equally frustrated with the poor communications sighs as the class gets going again.

One of the most striking changes since the Taliban were first in power from 1996 to 2001, is the explosion of the internet. The Taliban administration has allowed girls to study individually at home and has not moved to ban the internet, which its officials use to make announcements via social media. "I couldn't continue," she said. "It's too hard to access internet in Afghanistan and sometimes we have half an hour of power in 24 hours."

Daniel Kalmanson, spokesperson for online University of the People, which has had more than 15,000 applications from Afghan girls and women since the Taliban took over, said students could attend lectures at any time that conditions allowed them to, and professors granted extensions for assignments and exams when students faced connection problems.

 

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Thanks to the US regime... WOW

We're so glad that the Taliban is helping us out by making it impossible for Afghan girls and women to afford education. We should all be thankful for their assistance in poverty reduction. blessed

The US and NATO is responsible for the current situation, they handed over a nation to a terrorist group. What a big game!

Religion of peace

SpaceXStarlink

elonmusk can’t wait for starlink to change the world’s access to the internet and a free education from khanacademy

Okumamış olmaları işlerine geliyor pisliklerin.

Dont forget US still stole Afganistan money

StarlinkForAfghanistan elonmusk

So strange Reuters never criticizing dictatorships

Τι κάνουν οι ανθρωπιστικές οργανώσεις για αυτό?

We understand this challenge here in Nigeria. That's why childplusafrica runs cpas to meet this need.

JoeBiden legacy

It's not the taliban or isis, It's islam. Stop gaslighting ignorant westerners.

They need Starlink.

In 2023!!!

Can there not be a dedicated satellite broadcast aimed there just pumping out educational data free school/college courses that any smart phone can pick up? Send dynamos How to build a renewable power source home made-wind turbines? Solar phone chargers for all poorest girls/boys

For many years the US and its allies spend here lots of money, they trained those people who were against Islam so they couldn't fix the internet, I mean the poor connection is not our problem cause of aggression and occupation, they did they should fox it

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