Rozma Ghafouri

Rozma Ghafouri is an Afghan football player and coach. Her family fled to Iran in 1996 or 1997 when she was six years old. She is the co-founder of the Youth Initiative Fund. She was the Asia regional winner of the Nansen Refugee Award in 2020.

Early life and education Ghafouri's family fled from Afghanistan to Iran in 1996 or 1997 as the Taliban took over, when she was six years old. As a child in Iran, she worked as a labourer, her parents could not afford to put her and her four siblings through school. and coach.

Ghafouri was the Asia regional winner of the Nansen Refugee Award in 2020.