Rare Girls

Munisa Giyoeva is from Khorog, and now living in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and is a Pharmaceutical Science student in her last year at Avicenna Tajik State Medical University. Munisa loves reading books and making friends, she is an Active member of American Space Dushanbe, an Active member of AKHP debate club, and she delivered a presentation on Medicinal plants of Tajikistan in Central Asia at a Pha...

Nozanin Homidjonova is from Khujand, Tajikistan. Currently, she is a second year student at Polytechnic Institute of the Tajik Technical University named after M.S Osimi. Her major is Technology and Information Systems in the Economy Nozanin works with the Public Organization "Shams" which provides access to quality education for girls from removed areas of Tajikistan by using modern technologies....

Sohee Riboss is from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and currently lives in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Sohee finished her Master's degree in International Management at University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach and currently works as a junior marketing manager. Sohee loves badminton, drawing, dance, playing ukulele, photography, and personal improvement activities. She enjoys nature and long walks, d...

Maria Badanova is a Middle Eastern Slavic girl living in Montenegro and studying at the tourist secondary school, but actually would prefer to study literature. Masha also likes drawing, reading and singing. She acted in a theatre for 6 years and she is really passionate about it, although she doesn't do it right now. Masha focuses on her personal growth and on developing and discovering her value...

Feriel Zidane is from Algeria, and she studies in the Mathematical High School, the best school in her country. Feriel is a programmer and a game developer. She is also an artist and an online teacher of English. She really loves learning languages. Instagram: @ferielzidane

Sarah Lee Flageolle is from Quebec, Canada, currently studying criminology and psychology in University of Ottawa. She works in rehabilitation for individuals with mental disabilities and she has many hobbies such as sports (volleyball/boxing/running/etc) adventures, outdoors, hiking and travelling. Sarah Lee believes that achievements are very broad and subjective but one of her (tangible) achiev...

Gulbegim Rahimjonova is from Khorog, Tajikistan. She received a scholarship to Aga Khan Academdy in Kenya and graduated this year. She took a gap year, working at finance right now and plans to study business administration. Gulbegim enjoys singing, football, and reading. She has been involved in many things and had a uniprep course in Khorog @uniprep , football and environment CAS in Mombasa, Gir...

Felicia Moiseenco is a Moldovan girl studying at “Mihai Eminescu” college. Felicia likes to read, sing, draw and to listen to music. And she loves foreign languages such as English and Spanish. She participated in a local council named “Dacia”, where they discussed about local problems and tried to make the life of teenagers and everyone better, by doing charity acts and different concerts to ente...

Alelei Vargas is originally from the Philippines and currently lives in Dubai. Alelei studied Culinary Arts, worked as service crew in college, chef, admin, personal trainer, and now stretch coach; Her hobbies are sports, crafts, goofing around with her dog, and partying Alelei was able to tap into different industries and has successfully landed a job that she genuinely loves. She believes one of...

Louise Bergdahl is a Swedish girl, the first girl from Sweden on this podcast. Currently, she lives in Dubai, and works as a sales executive for a Swedish company. Loui grew up in a poor household and worked hard to live her dream life now in Dubai. Instagram: @040.305

Yulia Manuilova is a Young European Ambassador and a law student from Kharkiv, Ukraine, currently living in Zaporizhia. At her university, she is a representative of Student Ombudsman. Yulia was an intern at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and a deputy's assistant at Kharkiv City Council. She participated in various international conferences, meetings and schools (related to leaders...

Nilufar Sarbalandova is from Khorog, Tajikistan but currently lives in Canada. She loves reading books, listening to music and filming and editing videos. Nilufar studied Communications and Media for a year at University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan but quit studying as she felt this is not what she wants to do in the future. Currently, she is in Canada, preparing for applying to university to st...

Arina Tymoshchenkova is a Ukrainian girl from Mykolaiv. Arina is a dancer with 11 years of dance experience, she enjoys it very much, as well as playing volleyball and acting on the stage. Instagram: @tymoshchenkova

Malohat Rahimshoevna is from Khorog, Tajikistan, currently studying to be a doctor, Faculty of General Medicine at ATSMU. Malohat is a state volunteer, currently working in private and public clinics with the goal of delving deeper and deeper into the world of medicine. For 1,5 years, she served as a leader of volunteers in NORA Tajikistan. This year became a certified leader by IFMSA (Internation...

Shahnoza Rikamova is from Khorog, but currently lives in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Shahnoza has a degree in Communications and Media, and currently working in digital marketing. She loves listening to podcasts, drawing, painting, watching anime, spending hours on Behance, and taking long walks. Shahnoza is constantly working to improve herself spiritually, intellectually, and physically. Instagram: @s...

Anna Arseienko is a Ukrainian girl, and a Greenheart Alumna, currently a 12th Grade Senior in American school, finishing her education in Texas. Anna was an active participant in American clubs last year, and next year, she will study Business Management. Anna loves singing, drawing, and volunteering. And she received an Honor Medal for raising the Ukrainian flag, she received the award of excelle...

Sabina Babaieva is an International Baccalaureate (IB) student, a Ukrainian girl from Kharkiv Oblast, currently living and studying in Tbilisi, Georgia. Sabina is planning to major in history and politics. And she volunteered as a Board Member on Regional Development in the European Youth Parliament Ukraine. She also traveled as an Erasmus+ scholar to Kosovo and as a member of the EYP to Budapest...

Karina Domniț is a Certified Model and a content creator from Alba Iulia, Romania. Katrisha loves Writing Poems, Meditating, Cooking Vegetarian, Writing Songs, Traveling, Singing, Skincare, and creating content. She is also a Certified Economic Agent and works at a Consulting Firm in European Funds, she took part in the National Olympic in Accountancy, and constantly progressing and getting Throu...

Mariem Azzouz is a Member of the Children's Parliament in Tunisia, and she studies in the Second year of High School, specializing in technology. Mariem loves computer science and writing her thoughts in Arabic. Mariem is a Member of a human rights association for students, a contributor to an environmental project under the auspices of the European Union, a member of the Tunisian Scouts, and she...

This is the official Trailer of the Rare Girls Podcast project.

Wijdane Abdelhakim is a Moroccan girl living in Sidi Bennour city, and she is a baccalaureate of mathematic and science first year student. Wijdane really enjoys reading, writing poetry, traveling, public speaking and she works in the field of children’s rights with UNICEF Wijdane participated in the Arab reading challenge since she was 9, she participated in public speaking contests in French and...

Fotima Shohzodamuhammadova is a Tajik girl, married and the mother of a little boy, a graduated of Social Work and has a Master's Degree in Sociology. Moreover, she studied inclusive education in India. Currently, she lives in Jordan and works for an American company named Qudos as a sociologist. On a volunteer basis, providing psychosocial support for different categories of people. She has publi...

Romina Mehrabi is from Tehran, Iran, and currently living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Romina is a Bachelors of Computer Science (2nd year) student in a UoPeople non-profit online American university. Romina enjoys programming, creating and listening to music, video editing, playing basketball, playing piano, and swimming. Romania ranked in various teenage competitions, including for playing Piano a...

Milana Platonova is from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, and currently a third year student in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Her subject is International Relations with in-deep learning of Chinese. Milana is an activist and member of the All Ukrainian Social Democracy platform. She is also engaged in the development of the youth sector and together with her team held several events in this area....

Ritedj Trabelsi  is a published author with her own book and the first Algerian girl in this project to support women and share the lives and experiences of Unique girls from all over the world. Ritedj is 15 years old, she lives in Algiers, the capital city, and she is a first year student at the best high school in Algeria, the Mathematical High School They accept only the first and the second ra...