Give the Gift of Education: 20 Laptops for Afghan Women Pursuing Online Degrees and Internships

Help Stories Without Borders raise $15,000 to provide 20 laptops to Afghan women pursuing education and opportunity through Victory Afghanistan.

Imagine working toward a degree, preparing for an internship, or building skills for your future—but not having the technology you need to actually participate.

For many Afghan girls and women, this isn't just a hypothetical situation. It's their reality.

Since 2021, girls and women in Afghanistan have been banned from attending high school and university and have faced major restrictions on employment. Victory Afghanistan was founded in 2023 by four Afghan women who wanted to help respond to this crisis. The organization provides free online English-language education, mentorship, and pathways toward higher education, internships, and remote work. Today, Victory Afghanistan serves students ages 11–40 across more than 20 provinces of Afghanistan.

But online education only works when students can get online. Approximately 90% of Victory Afghanistan's students still rely on mobile phones because laptops are too expensive for many families.

A laptop is so much more than a piece of technology. For a student who can't attend a traditional school, it can be a classroom. For a woman starting an international internship, it can be her workplace. For someone pursuing an online degree, it can be a library, research lab, writing desk, and connection to professors and classmates around the world.

Stories Without Borders is raising $15,000 to provide 20 laptops to Afghan women who are beginning master's degrees and international internships through Victory Afghanistan. That's about $750 per laptop. Every donation, no matter the size, helps bring a student one step closer to having the technology she needs to continue her education.

Why Stories Without Borders is doing this

Stories Without Borders is a student-led service organization based in California. Our work is based on the belief that stories and service can build connection, empathy, and understanding around the world. We partner with nonprofits and schools to address social issues through literacy, education, and storytelling.

We believe that hearing other people's stories can help us understand each other better—and that understanding should lead to action. That's why this partnership with Victory Afghanistan means so much to us.

Victory Afghanistan isn't just providing classes. It's helping girls and women keep learning, build confidence, connect with other people, pursue higher education, and imagine futures where they can become leaders and make a difference in their communities.

We want to help these incredible girls and women shape their own stories—and have the opportunity to share those stories with the world.

From one student to another

Stories Without Borders founder Hollyn Alpert recently reported on Victory Afghanistan and its students for The Oracle, The Archer School for Girls' publication. The article, titled “Hope and love can keep us alive” (a quote from a Victory Afghanistan student), highlights the determination of Afghan girls and women who continue pursuing their education despite enormous obstacles.

One student described finally being able to pursue a stable education as feeling like “answered prayers.” She also explained how education gave her confidence and allowed her not only to learn, but eventually to teach others.

Another amazing Victory Afghanistan student, Basira, wrote a powerful personal essay about her own experience graduating #1 in her high school class and being accepted into the top university for her dream field, architectural engineering, before being barred from school two years into earning her degree. She notes, "...when someone takes your education, your purpose, your future, they are not just stealing your rights. They are erasing your existence." And Basira also says, "even if I cannot go back to the classroom right now, no one can stop me from speaking. No one can take away the voice I have found. And if you are reading this, you have heard it. That means I am still alive. That means we are still here."

Basira and her fellow Afghan girls and women aren't statistics. They are real people with goals, talents, ideas, and plans for their futures.

They are writers, teachers, scholars, mentors, artists, and future leaders.

Please help us get them the tools they need to keep learning.

Help us put 20 laptops into the hands of 20 students

Our goal is $15,000 for 20 laptops.

Every donation makes a difference.

$25 helps us get closer to providing a laptop.
$100 helps move us closer to our goal.
$375 covers half the cost of a laptop.
$750 can fund an entire laptop.
$1,500 can provide two laptops.
$3,750 can provide five laptops.
$15,000 can provide all 20.

Whether you give $10, $50, $750, or whatever you can, you are helping make education more accessible to a student who is determined to keep working toward the future she deserves.

Donate today and help Stories Without Borders put 20 laptops in the hands of Afghan women pursuing education and opportunity through Victory Afghanistan.

About the organizations

Stories Without Borders is a student-led service organization that uses the power of stories and service to promote connection, empathy, and understanding around the world. We focus on storytelling, literacy, education, and partnerships with nonprofits and schools to promote compassion and inspire action. Learn more at Stories Without Borders.

Victory Afghanistan is an entirely volunteer-run nonprofit providing free online education and mentorship to girls and women in Afghanistan. Its programs include English-language learning, mentorship, preparation for higher education, and pathways toward online internships and employment.

Fundraising note: Stories Without Borders is organizing this campaign in support of Victory Afghanistan. All funds raised will go directly to Victory Afghanistan to support the laptop initiative. Funds for each laptop are allocated to a specific student. Each laptop is purchased locally from a trusted supplier. Students provide photographs of the device and the official receipt, and all documentation is recorded by the Victory Afghanistan team. Victory Afghanistan also requests follow-up evidence to confirm that each laptop continues to support the student's education and professional development. This process helps ensure accountability to every donor.

Together, we can help make sure that not having a laptop doesn't have to mean giving up on an education.

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