A group of Vand company colleagues, project founder Toraj Saberivand, project communications manager Mitra Ferdowsi, project consultants Jalil Noorbakhsh and Ashkan Allahyari, and project coordinator Nazanin Ahani gathered as the core team to start the project. Many consultative meetings were held with Iranian and Afghan social activists who had previous experience of voluntary projects in Afghanistan so that the project could proceed with full understanding of the situation. Finally, the Kelkin Project’s call was publicized on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2022, in news outlets and social networks of Iran and Afghanistan. In this call, Afghan women and girls were invited to complete the initial registration form on the Vand company website. Within a month, 531 Afghan girls signed up from various countries. Those who registered were between the ages of 13 and 48 years old, with the majority of them being in the range of 17 to 32 years old. 62 percent lived in Afghanistan, 25 percent in Iran and the rest in ten other countries such as France, United States, Italy, Turkey and Sweden. 38 percent had left Afghanistan less than a year ago. Only 3 percent of these girls were “thoroughly” familiar with the basics of graphic design, and 86 percent had no professional work experience.