Afghan robotics team girls receive US scholarship offers

A 60-year-old Oklahoma mother who helped several members of an internationally recognised all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan escape the country said they are feeling “so grateful” to be out, writes Sophia Ankel for Business Insider.

On Tuesday 17 August, 10 of the so-called “Afghan Dreamers”, aged 16 to 18, were able to leave Kabul on a commercial flight to Doha, Qatar, after several failed attempts to flee the country. One of the people who helped them get out was Allyson Reneau, a mother of 11 from Oklahoma, who first met the girls at a Humans to Mars summit in Washington DC in May 2019.

Reneau said that the girls are now figuring out where to go from Qatar but that they’ve already had an “abundance of scholarship offers from incredible universities” in the US. “For the first time in their life, I really believe they have the freedom to choose and to be the architects of their own destiny and their own future,” she said. “It’s the freeing feeling to me to know that they will be able to go somewhere and get educated wherever they want.”
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