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“I am not one of those people that made paper planes and knew what I wanted to do as a child…”
Meet Lynette Kebirungi, Uganda's 2nd female aerospace engineer. “I am not one of those people that made paper planes and knew what I wanted to do as a child. That answer for me changed a couple of times as I grew up. My decision-making point in life was after I...
“Without the TechGirls scholarship, I would not have been able to pursue studying IT…”
Being a girl in the tech space has its ups and downs. The glaring gender disparities can be frustrating, but for Martha Annan who just matriculated with hopes of becoming a programmer, her joy in being one of the five females in her class of 26 students pursuing a...
“I want to become one of the best female programmers in Ghana!”
Martha Annan is the first Ghanaian beneficiary of the TechGirls project. Martha gained admission to study Information Technology at Wisconsin International University, Accra, Ghana. Experiencing her first week as a college student, Martha could not hide her...
A space where women can innovate…
Emily Namugaanyi, a talented software engineer from Uganda works for giving young women a secure space to learn, innovate and work. When a woman is asked what was your motivation to take on a career in technology, the answers you hear sound like this. “I like to solve...