Month: September 2013
My Disability Didn’t Stop Me. I am a Woman, a Mother and an Entrepreneur.
Akwa Ibom, Nigeria – September 24, 2013. Today is a big day for the Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs and Mobile Value Added Services program. YTF is providing entrepreneurship and capacity building training to over 400 women entrepreneurs in Akwa Ibom State. These women are drawn from across all the local government areas and own business in the […]
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Microsoft Alumni, Including YTF Founder Njideka Harry, Recognized for Extraordinary Leadership in Philanthropy
Microsoft Alumni Foundation Announces 21 Nominees for the 2013 Integral Fellows Awards Bellevue, Wash. — September 1, 2013 — The Microsoft Alumni Foundation has announced 21 nominees for its fifth annual Integral Fellows Awards, a program that recognizes and rewards Microsoft Corp. alumni for their nonprofit and philanthropic efforts. Each nominee represents a nonprofit organization […]
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(HuffPost) African Youth, Innovation and the Changing Society
“In 2000, I founded Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) with a very simple, but powerful vision: to bridge the digital divide between youth living and going to school in Nigeria and their digital peers living in the U.S. YTF was founded shortly after the Internet bubble and the dot com era, it was difficult to […]
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Toque de Queda, Youth in Soacha and Why It Matters
In recent days, Colombian farmers have staged a national strike for more than two weeks and this turned violent when thousands of students, truckers, miners and teachers joined the farmers. The government imposed curfew “Toque de queda” and dry law in some areas including Soacha after protests, violence and rioting struck those areas. This […]
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