Imagine students in rural Kenya using computers and reading books! 4,000 students across 10schools are busy 1 their computer skills on 2 machines. They learn everything from basic typing to coding to robotics, and even take part in 3 classes with NASA scientists in the US. Before 4 these lessons, however, very few of the students even knew what a computer was. Not being 5 to computers, children lack basic technology skills, and do not have access to STEAM programs.
TechLit Africa, was 6 by Nelly Cheboi, a 29-year-old software engineer who grew up in 7 in a Kenyan village, her single mother struggling to support the family. In 2012, she received a full scholarship to attend college in Illinois, where she discovered a love for 8 science. Upon returning to Kenya after 9 , she founded her own school, Zawadi, which became a launching pad for TechLit Africa. Her organization now 10 with American colleges and businesses to 11 the recycled computers.
For Cheboi, TechLit Africa is about more than just adding 12 to children's life: she hopes the students will use the 13 skill to find professional opportunities.
"I see a 14 in Kenya and in the rest of the continent where kids are becoming really tech literate," Cheboi says. "Once you come to the Internet, you become 15 —and by being so, you can help the world."
