The story
For a girl in Afghanistan, applying to college is terrifying. Finding programs that will take her, essays in a second language, visas, travel, money: any one step can end the whole thing. And she is doing it from a country where school itself is banned.
Nico’s Nerds is for the builders: girls aiming at engineering and technical degrees. We walk her through the entire process, start to finish. We help her find the right programs, apply to them, and get in. Then we help her get there, get settled, and start studying with a roof over her head and people in her corner. She never takes a step alone.
Getting involved takes one button. Fund the program, and every dollar moves a girl one step down that road: an application, a visa, a flight, a first semester. The bar above moves in public, every time someone decides she deserves to make it.