An NGO, Working to Advance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in African Women (WAAW) Foundation\u00a0 says\u00a0 27 African girls have so far\u00a0benefited from its scholarship since inception.
\nThe U.S.-based WAAW, which began operation in Nigeria since 2007 has also sponsored the training of\u00a0110 teachers and\u00a067 technology entrepreneurs in Africa.
\nThe Foundation\u2019s Programme Support Associate\u00a0 Mrs Sefunmi Obayan, said this\u00a0in an interview with newsmen as part of the activities marking its 10th anniversary in Abuja on Wednesday.
\nObayan said that the foundation facilitated the\u00a0training as way of\u00a0ensuring\u00a0that girls in Nigeria and Africa\u00a0key into\u00a0 Information Technology (IT).
\n\u201cWAAW Foundation is now 10 years. So far, we have been able to award scholarships to 27 girls in Africa, we\u2019ve given scholarships to girls in Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria and other countries.
\n\u201cWe have also trained 67 technology entrepreneurs from the 36 states of the federation.
\n\u201cWe started our teaching training in 2016 and we have trained 110 teachers, we have opened STEM chapters in universities and secondary schools across Nigeria and Africa,\u201d Obayan said.
\nShe, however, said that the foundation was engaging in training more teachers, technology entrepreneurs through its she Hacks Africa programme.
\n\u201cOur teacher training vision is to train 1,000 science teachers and our S\/He Hack Africa is envisioned to reach 2,000 technology entrepreneurs in five years.
\n\u201cWe want to diffuse the education sector with much STEM engagement because we want the teachers to impact the students we are unable to reach.
\n\u201cWe want to expose them to the world of technology like never before,\u201d she said.
\nAccording to her, the foundation is training girls on simple IT skills and also ensures they are not stereotyped into believing that engaging in IT is difficult.
\nShe said that it was the desire of the foundation to see more women in the IT sector and encourage them to reach their limelight in innovation.
\nWAAW Foundation is an organisation with the mission to empower girls in Africa by increasing the number of girls educated in STEM fields and to encourage their engagement in technology innovation to benefit Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An NGO, Working to Advance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in African Women (WAAW) Foundation\u00a0 says\u00a0 27 African girls have so far\u00a0benefited from its scholarship since inception. The U.S.-based WAAW, which began operation in Nigeria since 2007 has also sponsored the training of\u00a0110 teachers and\u00a067 technology entrepreneurs in Africa. The Foundation\u2019s Programme Support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}