Every other day, Sofia logs in from her Kabul home for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan's girls and women who can't go to school and continue their education due to the Taliban administration's restrictions on women.

With purple skin and an orange nose, her multi-coloured braids wrapped in a headscarf, Zari is “Sesame Street”’s first female Afghan muppet and she has a message: girl power.