A group photograph of the second batch of girls for FemITI
DreamOval Foundation has launched the second edition of Females in Tech Initiative.
This edition of the female-centric program dubbed FemiTI 2.0 is in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) with sponsorship from SAP.
Seventy-six girls from the Greater Accra region will be introduced to IOT, Robotics and coding in eight-week intensive digital literacy training.
The girls were selected from public schools in Madina, Adenta, Amrahia, Ogbojo and Ayi Mensah. Speaking at the launch of the program in Accra, Mr Francis Ahene-Affoh, SVP of the DreamOval Foundation, admonished the participants to be circumspect of the opportunity this program is presenting to them. He indicated that the DreamOval Foundation believes in a transformed society through digital evolution and advised them to take the training seriously.
Speaking on behalf of the Director of Basic Education of GES, Madam Philomena Buckman praised DreamOval Foundation for this initiative targeting girls from underprivileged societies and advised the girls to comport themselves and come out refined through this training.
The Foundation finds it essential to help with the development of young women and to ignite their interest in ICT education in Ghana. FemITI seeks to offer young girls from deprived areas with a lifetime opportunity to develop their minds and receive quality education in digital literacy.
All girls who participate in FemITI are monitored and guided from the beginning to explore an opportunity in higher education of learning. The commitment is to see the girls fulfill their dreams in software engineering and to tell a positive story to impact the lives of other girls in similar situations. The objective of this initiative is to train a total of 50,000 girls across the country within the next five years. Regions targeted include Volta, Ashanti, Eastern, Central and the Western Region. The program will also address the needs of girls in the northern sector of Ghana in the future.