These girls can! Watch how 鶹APP is empowering girls with digital skills for their future
Girls' education, Technology and education
Our Skills for Their Future programme aims to empower young girls in Kenya by equipping them with valuable skills that will help them to prosper after school.
It鶹APPs International Day of the Girl today and the theme for this year is Digital generation. Our generation.
To mark the day, 鶹APP visited Gachororo Secondary School in Kiambu County, Kenya, where girls are learning valuable digital skills thanks to our Skills for Their Future programme.
At 鶹APP, we believe that every child should be able to participate meaningfully in society.Our Skills for Their Future programme aims to empower young girls by equipping them with skills that will help them get a job or start a business in the future.
Without proper investment in education, it is predicted that by 2030 more than half of the world鶹APPs children will not have the most basic skills they need to prosper in the workplace. Girls and young women are most at risk of being left behind. Today, women represent only 3% of technology graduates globally.
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鶹APP has partnered with (YTF) in Kenya to deliver a comprehensive digital curriculum that teaches girls about how computers work, how to use popular programs such as PowerPoint and Excel, internet safety and social media.
The hope is that these lessons will spark the girls鶹APP curiosity and open their eyes to the possibility of pursuing a career involving digital technology.
Stacy Irara, YTF鶹APPs Programme Coordinator, said: 鶹APPSkills for Their Future is a digital literacy programme that is working to ensure the young generation, particularly the girls, [have] the skills to properly navigate technology and empower them to opt for STEM careers and ICT courses when they finish school.
鶹APPIt鶹APPs especially important to focus on girls. We say that 39% of girls in Africa and also women are not able to access something as simple as mobile Internet.鶹APP
Edward Mulupi, one of the Teacher Ambassadors at the school, said: 鶹APPI think it’s very important to empower girls because an empowered girl is a very productive member of the society. She contributes smart to the growth of the society and can break the gap of poverty.鶹APP
Girls at Gachororo Secondary School are excited to learn new technology skills (鶹APP /Trevor Maingi)
At Gachororo Secondary School, girls talked with excitement as they described what they had learned on the course.
鶹APPThe first time I heard about this programme, I was excited. I said, 鶹APPWow, we are lucky,鶹APP said Jacinta, one of the students. 鶹APPIt feels privileged because as young teenagers, we have been able to gain knowledge and also have those skills on computers.
Irene, another student, said: It鶹APPs the best thing that has ever happened to because I鶹APPm able to use the skills to know what I鶹APPm supposed to do for my business to grow.鶹APP
The Skills for Their Future programme builds on the previous success of 鶹APP鶹APPs Code Clubs for girls in several sub-Saharan African countries.
鶹APP is working hard to ensure young people – particularly girls – are not left behind. We have been running projects in several countries, including Kenya, Tanzania and Lebanon, to help girls and young women gain the digital skills they need for their future.
The programme has been made possible thanks to funding from the players of People鶹APPs Postcode Lottery.
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