Africa Code Week

YTF Commitment: bringing equity to all of Africa’s girls and women to be the innovators, changemakers, and leaders they are, creating ongoing awareness of and programs to redress gender disparity issues.

YTF Website: Africa Code Week

Africa Code Week Impact

“Learning how to use Scratch was amazing and eye-opening. I want to study engineering in the university and when I graduate from school, I will open an institution for children to teach them how to code. I want people to know that they can be creators not just users of technology.”

– Salome, 14 year-old participant

Girls reported that they found Africa Code Week exciting, fun, easy, challenging, and interesting. They loved the teamwork and interaction with other girls their age and developed a “keen interest in computer science.”

While participants admitted “most girls don’t like STEM,” after attending Africa Code Week, girls reported that they want to educate girls in their community. They reported wanting to share that STEM is not hard, it provides livelihood development, and that entrepreneurship gives them a way out of slums, prevents rural youth from having to move to urban centers to find employment, and gives the ability to control their income.

Some girls want to begin after-school programs to teach children to code. And another wants other girls “to understand they can create not just use [computers].”

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