And according to Fereshteh Forough, the founder of CTI, the women have already begun earning the second largest cryptocurrency by total value.
While Forough didn’t expand on how much ether altogether has been collected by the women, this isn’t her first foray into facilitating crypto payments to remote workers in Afghanistan.
In 2014, Forough collaborated with fellow Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob to offer Afghan women the ability to earn bitcoin by blogging.
Ether is unlikely to fare much better in these conditions, but regardless, Forough believes exposing the women to ether (and cryptocurrency broadly) has priceless educational value.
“There are girls in Afghanistan who know how to code,” Forough said, adding:
“And they are going to change the future of Afghanistan, their country, by just accessing this 21st-century knowledge.”
