Thunderbird is committed to ensuring the success of the program and measures outcomes well after the fellows return home. Project Artemis facilitates ongoing contact with the fellows to experience their successes and challenges; the fellows work with partners in-country to gage individual performance; and Thunderbird ensures formal interviews with the fellows and mentors after the program, to measure the value they put on their experiences.

The Impact

The Multiplier Effect - How One Experience Touches Many

Project Artemis helps educate the best and brightest of women. Fellows move forward with their individual accomplishments that make, not only a personal economic impact, but a contribution to the greater society, spurring other women to build businesses, and to learn English and business and computer skills. The impact of Project Artemis also spreads to a greater Afghan community: Business education leads to the establishment of stronger businesses, and strong businesses lead to economic growth, prosperity and peace.

Courageous Afghan women such as these fellows can make an impact in their country if they are given the tools to succeed:

  • Rangina employs over 500 home bound women in Kandahar in her embroidery business
  • Kamela employs several hundred Afghans in her construction business and has taught hundreds more in her business planning consultancy
  • Katrin has made over 10,000 microloans to Afghan families
  • Roshan has 32 different training programs for youth and women throughout Afghanistan
  • Zarghona operates a school for young women in Ghazni Province, giving them exposure to math, science, and language
  • Habiba’s school for young children will give them a start to education and will enable their parents to work during the day
  • Doctors Wahida, Arefa, and Safeia are dedicated to women’s health and have treated many women who struggle to get their needs met
  • Nargis provides Afghan women with a safe place to exercise and focus on their health
  • Zainul, through her bee-keeping business, has taught other women how to start their own bee keeping businesses and to sell honey
  • Aziza, through her growing leather goods company, employs many Afghans. Her workers produced over 10,000 soccer balls last year.
  • Fatima is using her own success as a shop owner in her Bamiyan bazaar to find funding for a new women’s-only bazaar that would give other women the same opportunity for economic independence

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