Impact Stories from Empowering Women and Girls Policy Area
Refugee Girls Need You (AEIF initiative)
Fellow(s): Placidie Benamahirwe, Enatha Mukantwari, Marie Claire Murekatete, Emmanuella Nzahabonimana, Lydie Umubyeyi and Sylvie Umutesi
Country: Rwanda
Cohort: 2014
Policy Area(s): Education Diplomacy/Mentoring, Empowering Women and Girls, Youth Engagement
2014 fellows of Rwanda have extended their mentorship activities to refugee girls in Rwanda. The initiative, Refugee Girls Need You, supports undeserved and vulnerable populations, aiming to enhance personal development, exposure of hands-on skills and use of technology among young refugee girls via mobile computer labs. The initiative is working with three camps in Rwanda that are housing refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fellows Placidie Benamahirwe, Enatha Mukantwari, Marie Claire Murekatete, Emmanuella Nzahabonimana, Lydie Umubyeyi and Sylvie Umutesi have partnered with the Rwanda Development Board, which provides mobile computer labs to reach rural areas. The fellows hope to encourage more girls to take on professional careers within in the fields of science, technology, and math.
Report Date...: 4/11/2016
She Can Do It!
Fellow(s): Rund Awwad, Maram Damous, Ghaida Khader, Rand Muhtaseb and Afnan Saqr
Country: Jordan
Cohort: 2015
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls, Professional Growth
TechWomen fellows of Jordan, Awwad, Maram Damous, Ghaida Khader, Rand Muhtaseb and Afnan Saqr, launched the initiative “She Can Do it!”, providing mobile apps development and on-the-job training opportunities. The four fellows developed the plan during the 2015 program to focus on capacity building and job training for recent female graduates in the IT and green technology fields in Jordan.
Report Date...: 3/28/2016
HerCode
Fellow(s): Aretha Mare, Rumbidzayi Mlambo
Country: Zimbabwe
Cohort: 2013
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls
Aretha Mare and Rumbidzayi Mlambo, 2013 fellows and founders of TechWomen. Zimbabwe. TWZ is an initiative to bridge the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, entrepreneurship and mathematics (STEEM). Pamusha is one of several projects supported by TWZ.The program is designed to impart practical and experiential skills in ICT to young women and other innovators to code for change.
Read More »Report Date...: 2/22/2016
Mombasa Girls in STEM Solve IT
Fellow(s): 2014 TechWomen fellows – Serah Kahiu, Sandra Kambo, Umikaltuma Mohamed, Sylvia Mukasa, Annie Njenga and Adah Waseka
Country: Kenya
Cohort: 2014
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls
The project aims to train 25 to 30 women professionals from Mombasa on a STEM curriculum. These ‘Trainers of trainers’ (TOT) will then train 150 high school girls on the curriculum and work on a STEM-based project that addresses a community problem in Mombasa.
Read More »Report Date...: 1/18/2016
STEM workshops
Fellow(s): Joy Agene, Desiree Craig and Busayo Durojaiye, Faten Khalfallah
Country: Nigeria, Tunisia
Cohort: 2014, 2015
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls, Youth Engagement
TechWomen fellows Joy Agene, Desiree Craig, and Busayo Durojaiye facilitated “STEM Rocks” workshops for female high school students in Lagos, Nigeria, in coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Abuja’s American Corners
Report Date...: 12/7/2015
Mozilla Cameroon Festival
Fellow(s): Dorothée Danedjo Fouba
Country: Cameroon
Cohort: 2014
Policy Area(s): Economic Impact, Empowering Women and Girls
Dorothee organized the first Mozilla Festival in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The festival brought together technologists and students to inform individuals about Mozilla products and, in particular, free tech tools for women to launch their own businesses.
Read More »Report Date...: 11/23/2015
Searching for Martha
Fellow(s): Sylvia Mukasa, Angel Bisamaza, Zimkhita Buwa, Neza Guillaine, Marthe Beatrice Kepseu, Rumbidzai Rosemary Mambo, Marie Claire Murekatete, Winnie Ngamije
Country: Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Cohort: 2013&2014
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls, Entrepreneurship
During the 2015 Transform Africa Summit, eight TechWomen fellows collaborated on an initiative to empower youth women entrepreneurs in Africa. The initiative, called “Searching for Martha,” aims to offer training to young African girls to develop, sell and promote mobile apps.
Read More »Report Date...: 11/16/2015
Al Hurra TV interview
Fellow(s): Ines Nasri
Country: Tunisia
Cohort: 2014
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls
Ines Nasri discusses being an entrepreneuer, a role model and supporting women in the tech world. She speaks about women’s issues to inspire Tunisian women in STEM. Ines is an entrepreneur and owner of Web Power, a digital marketing agency in Tunis. She is passionate about promoting the tech sector in her country and focused her interview on succeeding as a woman in the male-dominated field of web and digital marketing.
Read More »Report Date...: 11/2/2015
Mentor(s): Anar Simpson
Company: Mozilla
Mentor Type: Cultural
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls
Anar was a judge at the fourth annual LinkedIn DevelopHer Hackathon, an event aimed at fostering community among women in engineering. Anar is a Special Advisor on Women, Girls and Technology at Mozilla. She has served as a mentor since TechWomen’s launch in 2011. Anar also served as a Global Ambassador for the Technovation program and has helped fellows launch the program in Cameroon, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, South Africa, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
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Report Date...: 9/14/2015
Engineering and Math (HISTEM), Hypatia Intiative for Science, Tech
Fellow(s): Noha Mahmoud, Yassmen Abd El Ghaffar
Country: Egypt
Cohort: 2014
Policy Area(s): Empowering Women and Girls
TechWomen alumni Noha and Yassmeen of Egypt launched the HISTEM initiative to empower girls in STEM from technical workshops. HISTEM is the Hypatia Initiative for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, which provides technical workshops for women and girls, ages 14 to 23. The initiative was conceived by 2012 alumna Noha Mahmoud, after she was awarded the WeTech Seed Grant in November 2014. Yassmeen Abd El Ghaffar, a 2014 alumna, is the co-founder of the initiative, overseeing operations.
Read More »Report Date...: 8/3/2015
