Girls Speak Out is a youth led media initiative that aims to develop the media, advocacy and coding literacy skills of young women between the ages of 14-24 living in Zimbabwe’s under-served communities through journalism, advocacy and code training, combined with civic leadership mentoring, designed to trigger community activism and bring about social change.

Girls Speak Out offers free media, advocacy and code training to girls between the ages of 14 -24 living in low income, high density suburbs in Zimbabwe, helping to bridge the digital gap between the poor and the rich, and also helping to bridge the gender divide in the computer science, particularly in ICT. The organisation is working to create safe spaces of learning for girls who want to learn ICT and code, and also encouraging the girls to use their tech skills as tools for advocacy to address issues of concern in their local communities and spark social change.

https://girlspeakout.co.zw/

• Zimbabwe

• Youth
• Women
• The poor

The project aims to bridge the digital gap between the poor and the rich, and also helping to bridge the gender divide in the computer science, particularly in ICT.