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Pak-Afghan Women for Peace and Economic Development
Naheed Rehman, Secretary of Decoding Barriers, co-led a project with Shakir Qarar, who served as the First Secretary at the Islamic...

Decoding Barriers
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Female Led Python Courses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Sabrina Zafar recently partnered with The Mirror of Society , an organization in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dedicated to creating a platform where students can engage in educational workshops and feature their writing, to lead a recurring introductory Python course. Marfa Habib, a Master’s student at the Institute of Management Sciences in Peshawar, Pakistan, served as the teacher assistant for the course. Students learned how to declare variables, call functions, and create animatio

Decoding Barriers
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Empowering Christian Communities in Khyber District
The Christian communities present in Pakistan and Afghanistan are among the most vulnerable communities in the region. Due to the intense discrimination they face from the broader community, they face threats of physical violence and limited employment opportunities. Several deadly attacks targeting Christians have claimed hundreds of innocent lives in recent years; furthermore, many Christians are restricted to low-paid professions, often in the sanitation sector. Nusrat, a

Decoding Barriers
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Vital Resource Distribution to Refugee Communities
Naheed Afridi, a founding member and Secretary of Decoding Barriers, led an initiative to support the inhabitants of a refugee camp in...

Decoding Barriers
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Supporting Jamrud's Local Schools
Dr. Samina Afridi, Vice President of Decoding Barriers, lead an initiative to deliver educational resources to a local girl’s school in...

Decoding Barriers
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