Giacomo Cresti is a Physical Education Head Teacher. Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach for the HS students and Certified Fitness Professional. Below is an interview of him about Afghanistan, Central and South Asia.

FA: Please tell us about yourself and your background?

GC: I'm an educator writing for Annex Press about topics mostly regarding women's rights around the world, especially in Afghanistan. I've been traveling extensively throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe, especially in underdeveloped countries where women are considered second class citizens, and deprived of their most basic rights. Many of the places I've visited are now at war - Yemen, Syria, Kashmir - or suffered from conflicts in their recent history - Egypt, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Tibet, the Caucasus, Cuba. All are trying to find their true identity and direction. It's in countries like these that women are most repressed, where tradition prevents them from having equal opportunities as compared with the male population. Through my work in a school, teaching students with learning disabilities, I've learned how to empower  and motivate these young individuals to advocate for themselves in a world that is every day more and more competitive. And through my work in fitness, training clients coming from diverse backgrounds, I've learned how to empower and motivate them to achieve their goals no matter how hard they need to work. Now I'm utilizing the strategies provided by current social media to work for the empowerment of women across the globe, and for a global society in which women can finally have a leadership role.

FA: What do you think about Women's Annex and it's philosophy?

GC:  It's a great opportunity for women all over the world not only professionally, but also socially. I think it gives women the possibility to emerge, and empowers them to find additional ways to make their voice heard. In a world in which most women are still denied mostbasic rights, Women's Annex provides a tool they can use to say stop to this tendency and fight for their rights.

FA: How women's Education, Economical Independence and social media will affect their life in developing countries like Afghanistan, Central and South Asia?

GC:  Immensely. Tradition can be a tough obstacle to overcome, if not insurmountable. Every woman should be given the same chances that are available to men, professionally, socially and economically. Education builds the basis on which their careers will develop. Economical independence allows them to put themselves in the position in which nobody else can make decisions about their future except themselves. And social media offers strategic tools they can use to achieve what they want.

FA:  Why do you think it is important to promote women using social and digital media, especially in developing countries?

GC: Because that's where they are most repressed. And that's where it's most dangerous for them to come out openly without the dangers of retaliation. Social and digital media allow women in such conditions to develop their ideas with fewer risks involved.