“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.”

                                                                                                                                                             Maya Angelou

This was a very busy week for everybody in FilmAnnex. We have started the Afghan Development Project by Building Internet classroom in Afghanistan since months ago  to cover 40 schools and 160,000 female students as we just opened two other schools "Mahjoobe Heravi" and "Malake Jalali"

We have launched a new platform Women's Annex recently. It is managed by Afghan women which promotes and supports Women Empowerment in Afghanistan, Central and South Asia.  By Empowering we have to think about  Economic, Educational, Political, Health and Social empowerment for women. This is how social media can be used as a great tool  for women which provides more chances and opportunities for them  to establish their own thoughts and raise their voice even if they are at home and start leading people on their own way.

 

We have launched also Afghan Perspective Web TV for Afghan youth who are watching 60 Minutes program on CBS and try to express their thoughts and feeling about each episodes and express it as an Afghan point of view, the purpose is to connect people in US to Afghans which have the same thoughts and experiences and start working together.

I also was introduced with Sam French A founding director of Development Pictures in Kabul, Afghanistan, he is an award-winning filmmaker with over 15 years of experience in film and television. In 2011, he directed “Buzkashi Boys,”  which was shot in Kabul. He also trained Afghan filmmakers by the help of Afghanistan's film industry project.

I also met  Elissa Montanti  who founded the non-profit, nonpartisan Global Medical Relief Fund which aims to aid children who are missing or have lost the use of limbs or eyes, have been severely burned, or have suffered other effects of war, natural disaster, or illness.

I spent very great time with her and kids which was an inspirational moments for me to see their courages to face with every challenges in their journey.  There was an Afghan girl "Marzia" whom they called her "an angel from Afghanistan" and other kids from India, Siriya and Iraq.