Code Her Future Kenya

Even as we come to the end of the year 2022 and begin another, we pray that God helps us to band together and continue helping girls in need all over the country of Kenya access key digital skills and job opportunities. We have goals in the year 2023 to enroll up to 100 girls annually into the program and provide them with key digital skills that transform their lives.

We are sending this project report to assure you that your donations and support throughout the year 2022 made a difference and were put to good use. Through your kindness and generosity, we were able to give access to over 30 girls to learn digital skills such as basic computer packages, graphics design, and website design in addition to coding. We believe that with these skills they are now able to be linked to online and offline job opportunities that can earn them income and transform their lives in the end.

The girls at the Ready Aiders ICT Center would like you to know that they are grateful and working extra hard to put your donations and contributions to good use. Your donations pay for the WIFI, rent, electricity, water, and the tutor who transfers the knowledge and skills. It also buys and maintains computers.

Your donation ensures that girls who live in Mathare slums in Nairobi Kenya are given a choice and a voice, things they have been lacking for a long time. They can now choose what to do with their lives and are no longer limited to early marriages or unwanted pregnancies. They now have the voice to tell the world what they are good at and how they would like to be supported. Through this report, they are speaking to you saying thank you, and asking you to do more for them by spreading this project to your workplace, friends, and family for more support.

Kind Regards,

Kenneth Apopa

Chief Executive Officer.

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• Beckys testimony

We as a society are a sum total of the opportunities that we give to girls and women to prosper. Margnizalition and discrimination of girls through systemic cultural systems has been a serious practice in Kenya. Girls who come from low-income areas like the slums we serve in rarely get a chance to pursue their dreams to become what they wanted since childhood. This is because at the onset of the adolescent stage they are subjected to various abuses that reduce their chances of being able to pursue their dreams.

This project is slowly changing the narrative in Mathare slums and making more girls realize that their dreams are achievable and that through the safe space that we have provided at our ICT Center and Digital library their dreams can be midwifed into reality.

At the Ready Aiders ICT Center and Digital library, we teach young girls who have just cleared their form four exams skills in coding, website design, graphics design, and basic computer packages. This time round of the year we have admitted seven girls who are now currently moving from stage one (Basic Computer packages ) before they move to stage two which will begin with graphics design and end with coding. Many of the girls in the current cohort have dreams of starting to earn an income from what they learn as soon as they finish these classes.

During the morning hours, it is the girls who are part of the cohort team that uses the center, in the evening we turn the center into a digital library where the young girls from schools within the community and who are currently in primary school can come and read books online.

All these services both the girls using the digital library and those being taught coding get for free courtesy of the kindness of donors like you who through this GlobalGiving platform choose to make a difference and be the hope that is missing in the environment that we are in. On behalf of the girls, I say thank you , God bless you, and continue to do more.

Kind regards