Nonfungible token (NFT) company Bookblocks.io has partnered with a New York-based organisation to assistance women in Afghanistan have admission to education among the Taliban takeover.

Bookblocks.io appear it would exist releasing a nonfungible token, or NFT, on October. 5 with the proceeds to exist given to Women for Afghan Women, an system that helps to provide women with access to education and vocational preparation in both Transitional islamic state of afghanistan and the United States. The artwork, inspired past American writer Louisa May Alcott, features half a adult female's confront covered by a single butterfly wing with the quote "aught is impossible to a determined woman."

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the 1990s, they banned educational activity for almost all women and girls. History practically repeated itself when the extremist Islamist group seized control of the government post-obit the withdrawal of the Usa military last month and only advised men and boys to return to school. The land's Deputy Minister of Education Zabihullah Mujahidwhile has said cryptically that the Taliban plans to give women and girls access to instruction "as shortly as possible."

"This is a generation that grew upwardly hopeful and dreaming about their futurity through educational opportunities," said Women for Afghan Women'south U.S. land manager Naheed Samadi Bahram. "We are committed to serving Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and Afghan refugees arriving in the U.S."

According to Bookblocks.io, 100% of the money raised from the sale of the NFTs will go towards Women for Afghan Women, with a 5% residual for each subsequent sale. The company plans to mint 2,200 copies of the NFT in recognition of the reported two.2 meg girls currently unable to attend schoolhouse in Afghanistan. The price starts at 0.025 Ether (ETH), or roughly $75.54 at the time of publication.

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Afghan women, risking death, beatings and imprisonment, take continued to protestation the Taliban'south stance not allowing them to attend school through both social media messages and in-person demonstrations. Code to Inspire, a school that aims to educate Afghan girls on coding and robotics, is continuing online classes as the situation develops.