Rozma Ghafouri
Rozma Ghafouri is an Afghan football player and coach. Her family fled to Iran in 1996 or 1997 when she was six years old. She is the co-founder of the Youth Initiative Fund. She was the Asia regional winner of the Nansen Refugee Award in 2020.
Early life and education[edit]
Ghafouri's family fled from Afghanistan to Iran in 1996 or 1997 as the Taliban took over, when she was six years old.[1] As a child in Iran, she worked as a labourer, her parents could not afford to put her and her four siblings through school.[1]
Career[edit]
Ghafouri is a football player[2] and coach.[1] In 2015, She co-founded the Youth Initiative Fund in Shiraz to support the needs of vulnerable children.[1] The fund is supported by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Iran's Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants’ Affairs and it provides support to 400 children per year; services provided include education, physical activity, and social support.[1][3]
Ghafouri was the Asia regional winner of the Nansen Refugee Award in 2020.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Afghan coach wins Nansen Award for empowering refugees in Iran". Tehran Times. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ Agudo, Alejandra (2020-09-30). ""En los momentos tristes pienso que, sin nuestro trabajo, muchas de las niñas estarían muertas"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ Romano, Andrea (2021-08-17). "Storia della resistenza e delle conquiste del calcio femminile in Afghanistan". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ "Nansen Refugee Award: All regional winners women for first time". InfoMigrants. 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2022-09-05.