Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the Co-Founder and President of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), an organization dedicated to providing access to quality education for girls from across Afghanistan. SOLA is the only all-girls boarding school in the country, currently serving 70 students in grades 6-8. The school aims to add a new class of 6th-grade students each year, with a goal to enroll students from all of Afghanistan's 34 provinces in grades 6-12 by 2022.