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Excerpts:

"Disadvantaged girls change their communities by learning to code
By Kathleen Toner, CNN

Updated 2125 GMT (0525 HKT) November 26, 2018

CNN Hero Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)

Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko—known as the world's largest "floating slum"—built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.

Rickety shacks stand on stilts in the polluted water. Canoes are required transportation through the maze of narrow canals. Okpoe's father is a fisherman, and her mother sells smoked fish, eking out a living on the fringes of Africa's largest city.
Lagos has a thriving economy built on oil, finance and manufacturing. And the city is now considered Nigeria's Silicon Valley, with Facebook and Google opening offices there earlier this year.
Yet it's estimated that as many as two-thirds of the city's 21 million residents live in slums that lack reliable electricity, clean water and sanitation.

CNN Hero Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin
"When I went to Makoko for the first time, I was surprised to see the living conditions of human beings," recalls Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin, a computer programmer in Lagos. "Most girls are trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty. Many of them are not thinking education, a plan for the future."

But several times a week, girls like Okpoe get a glimpse of another world when they attend GirlsCoding, a free program run by the Pearls Africa Foundation that seeks to educate -- and excite -- girls about computer programming. Since 2012, the group has helped more than 400 disadvantaged girls gain the technical skills and confidence they need to transform their lives.

It's the vision of Ajayi-Akinfolarin, who left a successful career to dedicate herself to this work. She'd noticed how few women worked in this growing field -- a 2013 government survey found that less than 8% of Nigerian women were employed in professional, managerial or technology jobs. She wanted to fix the gender gap.
"Technology is a space that's dominated by men. Why should we leave that to guys?" she said. "I believe girls need opportunities."

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/13/world/cnnheroes-abisoye-ajayi-akinfolarin-pearls-africa-foundation/index.html


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