Div:a is a non-profit initiative dedicated to empowering young girls with coding and development skills. It’s the brainchild of Fadzayi Chiwandire, Development Lead at OnePointFour Consulting. She’s taken it upon herself to pass on her significant knowledge and experience to her students (Div:as), in order to protect their futures and address the industry’s gender imbalance.
Our aim is to:
Give young girls truly useful and relevant skills to fall back on in the event that they’re not able to receive a tertiary-level education.
The idea is that no Div:a student should find themselves in the kind of vulnerable position where marrying young is their only prospect after leaving school;
Address South Africa’s (and by extension SADC’s) significant shortage of developers in general;
Ensure that women are better represented in the development industry by empowering our girls to go out and correct the gender imbalance themselves;
Meaningfully contribute to correcting South Africa’s youth unemployment rate by giving young people skills that are in high demand

http://divainitiative.com

• Africa

• Youth
• Women

Div:a is a non-profit initiative dedicated to empowering young girls with coding and development skills.