Somaya Faruqi information

Somaya Faruqi
Somaya Faruqi
Occupation	Engineer

Somaya Faruqi (also spelled Farooqi) (born 2002) is an Afghan student and engineer, and the captain of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team,^[1] also known as the "Afghan Dreamers."^[2]^[3] She was named to the BBC's 100 Women in 2020 and was featured by UNICEF in 2020 as well as the UN Women Generation Equality campaign in 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, her team designed a prototype ventilator to help fight the coronavirus in Afghanistan.^[4]

^ Billing, Lynzy (15 March 2021). "The female Afghan tech entrepreneurs inspiring each other". Al Jazeera.
^ Cite error: The named reference Hadid 2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Haidare, Sodaba (20 May 2020). "Coronavirus: Afghan girls make ventilators out of car parts". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
^ "I am Generation Equality: Somaya Faruqi, young Afghan innovator who led the development of a low-cost ventilator prototype". UN Women. 9 February 2021.

[Billing_2021-1] Billing, Lynzy (15 March 2021). "The female Afghan tech entrepreneurs inspiring each other". Al Jazeera.

[Hadid_2020-2] Cite error: The named reference Hadid 2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Haidare_2020-3] Haidare, Sodaba (20 May 2020). "Coronavirus: Afghan girls make ventilators out of car parts". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2021.

[4] "I am Generation Equality: Somaya Faruqi, young Afghan innovator who led the development of a low-cost ventilator prototype". UN Women. 9 February 2021.