Because of their social and academic background, girls studying in STEM are facing several challenges. Among them are :
- Academic internship or first job
- Professional and technical skills (mainly due to outdated curricula)
- Career Management or advanced studies
- Entrepreneurship in the ICT sector

We need game-changing teams to compete in today’s fast-changing world. This includes gender diversity game-changers who
- Create instruments for effective public private cooperation to get more girls in STEM
- Are ambassadors (including role models) of a worldwide program supported by International organizations to attract and empower women in TECH
- Conduct Fast track program to empower girl in ICT and Coding in 9 months (Hack4Girl & WoMentor)
- Explore game-changing learning methods which enable women to think disruptively

In Africa (currently in Cameroon but upcoming in Gabon) with the Digital Coalition, we are setting up mentoring program for teenage girls and students at university.
• The first step is to bridge the gap prior to A-Level and get more girls in STEM at University
• The second step is to get appropriate coaching and mentoring from professional women in STEM field
• The third step is to fill the educational gaps by providing additional digital courses to complement outdated curricula.

Our role is to fill technical, professional and social gaps to facilitate the attraction and retention of girls in STEM from school to the early stage of their professional careers through our targeted programs : Hack4Girl (Girls in ICT celebration) and Womentor

“Hack4Girl” is a
• One day program
• Open to teenagers and young girls
• Coding session
• Engineering and ICT job fair

Womentor is a
• 9 months program
• Training on ICT, Digital and engineering skills
• Mentoring and coaching on professional skills and entrepreuneruship
• Sides activities with partners

We cannot achieve gender equality out of quality education

http://womentor.tech/

• Cameroon
• France
• Gabon
• Germany

• Youth
• Women
• Rural women

We have started the program in Cameroon. It is on the way to be replicated in Gabon where we have initiated the first training in partnership with the Ministry of Digital Economy who is the main sponsor
We have current demand in others countries where mentors are currently active

The program is run in strong collaboration with partners who provided locations (we have MoU with universities and schools), technical material or facilities (World Bank)
We charge a small fees of 15 euros per participant and we do have active members and sponsors who provided donation, skills, time and facilities

In order to deliver our technical training, girls need to be in facilities that are mainly located in urban cities where we can deliver the training. We would like to be able to move our facilities in rural zone as to be able to deliver the training in villages and online as well. Currently we have deployed our technical material in AfroLAb to facilitate the online training.

We have enrolled our second batch in September 2018 and still having unfulfilled demands from girls in other cities and as well rural zone although we have selected and recruited mentors from different regions of the world.
The Prize could help us to achieve a greater impact for off line communities where we cannot currently provide a full answer to existing demands. We are planning to used our e-learning solutions and to fund travels in rural zone and offline communities for our experts to run train the trainers so the communities could connect using a smartphone and have access to online courses

Second challenge is to maintain the motivation of our beneficiaries. We do have to run activities with side partners and manage many personal issues at time as to keep them focused on the final objectives. At the beginning only 30% of beneficiaries will receive a certificate. We are progressively increasing this number through a rigorous selecting process and a constant coaching even on personal challenges.

Our focus is on gender equity and capacity building as we believe it is impossible to achieve achieve gender equality out of quality education. And the rest will follow