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The program has allowed students to not only receive their first job but also double their salary within a month by supplying them skills needed to succeed. Throughout Audrey's seven years leading the school, she developed and guided a team of over 100 people to train over 4000 students in both Kenya and Rwanda . [ 2 ]
UNAIDS and the African Union have recognized CSE's impact on increasing condom use, voluntary HIV testing and reducing pregnancy among adolescent girls and have included comprehensive, age-appropriate sexuality education as one of the key recommendations to fast track the HIV response and end the AIDS epidemic among young women and girls in Africa.
In 2019, she founded the nonprofit TechLit Africa with another software engineer, Tyler Cinnamon, [4] after quitting their jobs. [1] The organization, headquartered in Kenya at Zawadi Yetu, [4] teaches 4000 students aged 5–14 basic computer skills and redistributes recycled technology to enable the creation of computer labs in African schools ...
Access to computers, or to broadband access, remains rare for half of the world's population. For example, as of 2010, on average of only one in 130 people in Africa had a computer [2] while in North America and Europe one in every two people had access to the Internet. [3] 90% of students in Africa had never touched a computer. [4]
In many countries, there is a significant gender gap in computer science education. In 2015, 15.3% of computer science students graduating from non-doctoral granting institutions in the US were women while at doctoral granting institutions, the figure was 16.6%. [27] The number of female PhD recipients in the US was 19.3% in 2018. [28]
However, in the north, which has always been the most isolated part of Cameroon, registration is low. Most students in Cameroon do not go beyond the primary grades. There has been an increasing trend of the smartest students leaving the country in recent years to study abroad and settling there: the so-called "brain drain".
The Computer Society of South Africa (CSSA) is a representative association for ICT practitioners and professionals throughout South Africa. The Computer Society of South Africa focuses its activities, events and publications in five primary areas: ICT Policy representing industry practitioners at a local level.
African Science Academy (ASA) is an all-girls advanced-level school for mathematics and science established in August 2016 in Tema, Ghana, by a U.K., U.S. and Ghana-registered charity. The academy is made up of girls from different nationalities across Africa.