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Using Technology Training to Empower Girls and How You Can Help

Today, without exception, we live in a technological age.  We live in a world where computers offer instant access to knowledge, communication, culture, and skill building opportunities.  We live in a time where a person can go to school, tend to their finances, talk with friends, apply to jobs and so much more - all with the click of a mouse.  Perhaps most important to acknowledge, we live in a world where those who possess computer skills soar in their personal and professional lives and those without often get left behind.  
 

FAWE Lab

Develop Africa, in partnership with the FAWE (Forum for African Women Educationalists), Freetown Branch, Sierra Leone, has set up a fully-equipped, multimedia computer lab at the FAWE school for girls in Freetown, Sierra Leone.  Lab was launched in May  2011.  The school was set up in 1995 during the civil war. It was set up to provide education for displaced and under privileged girls. Read more about the FAWE Lab...

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