A window to the outside world
SOWCoders Bootcamp, 8th – 23th February 2020 At Womanity we strongly believe that technology catalyzes connections, helps overcome physical and geographical boundaries and has the power to bridge realities which are very different from each other. Our program Girls Can Code (GCC) works with four schools in Afghanistan to provide 16 to 19-year-old girls with coding skills, […]
Valentina Di Felice #BoldForChange
Valentina Di Felice – Women’s Day Valentina is Womanity’s Head of Operations. Since 2010, she has contributed to design, shape and supervise the foundation’s media programs in the MENA region and the educational program in Afghanistan. Since 2016, she has been involved in designing the foundation’s strategy and its outcome framework. She currently supervises ad-interim […]
Afghanistan's female coders defy gender stereotypes
Meet Afghanistan’s female coders who are defying gender stereotypes by Kirstie Brewer, The Guardian contributor In a country where just 16% of the workforce is female, teaching women to code can help foster greater equality, empowerment and economic stability. In the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, a small but determined contingent of young women […]
The positive gains of teaching girls to code in Afghanistan By Elizabeth Rector
Elizabeth Rector is The Womanity Foundation program leader for Girls Can Code in Afghanistan, teaching high school students to code. The project, implemented in two of Kabul’s biggest girls schools, launches in April 2016. For most of my business career, my aspirations have shifted between growing and transforming businesses as a commercial leader and making […]
Advancing Girls' Education in Afghanistan
“Women who have undertaken an educational path are more likely to send their children to school… They can work and contribute to the family income, sharing with their husband the burden of sustaining, economically, the family and improving the quality of their life …” – Senior officer in education, Womanity Foundation Afghanistan. The Challenge Under the […]