The world is moving forward and the technology industry where the male is dominating, for instance, the Pearls Africa Youth Foundation are trying their best to bring young women and girls to the tech industry by educating girls in science and technology and let them break out from poverty, become change instruments in their neighborhood and right to high-wage jobs.
Pearls Africa Youth Foundation is the place for Girls Coding, a project intended to prepare young girls (ages 10 -17) from underserved societies with computer abilities like HTML, robotics, and Java programming. The girls are taught to use these skills to offer sustainable public answers in society.
Union Bank is happy to collaborate with Girls Coding for Four years consecutively. As a financial institution devoted to facilitating victory in its host communities, this affiliation intensifies our pledge to gender equality and cheering societal growth via impactful programs.
This year, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, 70% of the preparation was done virtually with learning pieces of equipment sent out to the contestants. A-Train the Trainee program too was set up, where Odunayo Ajayi and Alade Nosirat, participants from earlier years were brought in to train the next participants and act as tutors to them.
Union Bank will not stop supporting programs designed at bridging the gender hole in our society. We lately aligned with Junior Achievement Nigeria to execute the LEAD Camp initiative. With this program, we encourage and empower 130 young girls to turn into high-achieving young leaders in society. We also joined with Mamamoni Empowerment Foundation to help women in low-income areas.
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