“In 2000, after graduating with a degree in finance and economics, Njideka found herself employed at Microsoft, testimony to how far she had come since that first semester of college. Soon after, fueled by the difference technology had made in her own life and a personal mission to give back to her community, she launched the non-profit Youth for Technology Foundation.
The organization is a proponent of ‘reverse migration’ – a movement to encourage youth to move back to or to stay in their rural communities – by making it meaningful for them to do so. Njideka emphasizes the importance of the energy, knowledge, skills, and capabilities of youth in the fight to reduce rural poverty.”
