Every now and then a star shines in the darkness of the news that follows one another from Afghanistan. Which reminds us that we must not stop hoping, but above all to get busy. As did Allyson Reneau, 60, who in the bio on her official website defines herself only as a “mother of eleven children”; by profession “motivational speaker”, one of those who gives you speeches on the meaning of life that make you feel better. Now it makes us feel better to know that Allyson Reneau saved ten Afghan girls and how he did it. The girls are part of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team, the team of robotics students that had sprung up in Afghanistan in recent years. Allyson Reneau had met them in Washington, a couple of years ago, at a technology summit, Human to Mars Summit. Even then there was a problem: the girls could not get a visa for the United States and in the end President Trump intervened to get them through. Then they won an award with a robot able to distinguish between clean and contaminated water. Last November in Estonia another award for a solar-powered robot that can help farmers with sowing. And to counter the pandemic they have created a sanitizing fan made up of scrapped car parts.
When the Taliban arrived in Kabul, Allyson Reneau made a post on Instagram asking to pray for these girls who asked to be able to leave the country and continue studying: “We need a miracle”. But she did more. She asked a friend who works at the American embassy in Qatar to prepare all the documentation in one night to make them leave the country, the government of Qatar sent a plane and the girls left for Doha: “They left everything they had to realize your dreams, to be free and educated “.
Technically, the girls, who are between 16 and 18, will now have to decide where to go but according to Allyson Reneau they already have plenty of scholarship offers from some “amazing American universities”. How many other “Afghan Dreamers” are left in Kabul? Allyson posts messages from other women on social media: “I’ll try to save as much as I can”.
When they returned to Kabul from Washington two years ago, Roy Mahboob. who is the first woman to lead a tech company in Afghanistan, the Afghan Citadel Software Company, and who founded the Afghan girl team for robotics, said, “These girls are an example of hope, happiness and pride. for the entire Afghan community “.
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