Tech needs girls
STARTING YOUNG: The tech needs girls’ organization
By leadership project: Thursday 23, 2014
Tech needs girls is an interactive workshop that
engage girls to create technology and not just consume it we have 2 co-founders Regina Agyare CEO OF Soronko solutions
AND rasheeda yehuza founder at click trade Ghana and 10 mentors who are
dedicated to change these girls lives through technology. Information
Technology increasingly permeates every aspect of society and provides the
foundation for most modern innovation, our girls are avid use of new
technologies but to date, girls and women continue to be significantly
underrepresented in technical occupations.
Tech needs girls is run by Soronko Solutions
which is a social enterprise that brings social change using technology. We
develop technology solutions across different channels ,web, mobile, pos, tech
needs girls came as part of the social projects we run, we just completed an
interactive session where we took 50 girls on how to create websites develop
mobile applications networking and designing innovative software. We wanted the
girls to start to create technology.2013 was a very good year for us because we
were able to get more girls to participate and develop keen interest in
pursuing information technology as career roles.
For this year 2014 we are happy to announce a
second edition of tech needs girls which comes into collaboration with the
achievers book club which is an independent ghananian non-profit organisation
with a simple mission: education for all girls in slums in Ghana. Their story
started with a girl called Amina who lives in the Accra slum of Nima and
despite excelling at school was forced into marriage at the age of 12, what
happened next was that in 2011 She co-founded the ABC to help prevent similar
situations to be suffered by other young girls in the community this mad Amina
an inspiration to many other girls.
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