Mission.
Building Resilience through Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Digital Citizen Fund's (DCF) mission is to support women and girls in gaining access to technology and education to obtain the skills they need to achieve financial independence.
Roya Mahboob founded DCF to support female entrepreneurs in her home country, Afghanistan. DCF has nearly a decade of experience in delivering effective digital and financial literacy training programs. Their classes have reached tens of thousands of girls in Afghanistan. DCF alums have received global recognition for their academic and technical achievements. A generation of girls are overcoming remarkable challenges while advancing new opportunities in their communities. 27.5 million Afghans are under 25 – half the country's population. To build resilience and prosperity, broadly embracing talent is essential for Afghanistan's future.
RECENT NEWS
PBS: Roya Mahboob discusses the decimation of women's rights after two years of Taliban rule.
Virginia Tech: Afghan student Ayda Haydarpour finds a sense of purpose at Virginia Tech
NBC News: After fleeing for their lives, Afghan girls robotics team mourns what they left behind
UN News: Digital ambition: How one Afghan student plans to get girls back to school