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Women Around the World: Abisoye Ajayi Akinfolarin · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm not gonna stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've never told your protection of I heart radio. Annie.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever play or do those computer games where
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  Speaker 1: it taught you how to type? Oh? I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: I ever did that. I took typewriting. What's that called?
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  Speaker 1: I bet that it's such a foreign concept to students.
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  Speaker 1: I did that too. It was in technology or like,
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  Speaker 1: I t like technology class, and we had a whole
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  Speaker 1: like typing class. But when I was in third grade,
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  Speaker 1: there was this whole program and if we aren't our time,
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  Speaker 1: you can go in and do this game computer program
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  Speaker 1: and test yourself. Oh, and I would do that as
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  Speaker 1: a third grader. I loved it. We we didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do anything like that. But we had competitions where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you'd get this very complicated sin It's just
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  Speaker 1: the type out complicated in terms of like the letters
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  Speaker 1: were far away from each other or whatever, and whoever
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  Speaker 1: could type them out the quickest would get a prize,
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  Speaker 1: and whoever was the slowest had to do ten push ups.
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  Speaker 1: This was my typewriting class. That's a dumb competition. B
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  Speaker 1: So do you know how many words a minute you
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  Speaker 1: can type I used to at my height, I want
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  Speaker 1: to say, it was like, yeah, I bet I'm now
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  Speaker 1: like more of a one twenty type of person. But
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  Speaker 1: who knows. I have to watch myself type. I can't
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  Speaker 1: do the look away m hm anymore interesting. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if if I ever could, I have to watch
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  Speaker 1: myself because I do so many typos. If I like
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  Speaker 1: come back and like, it's entirely typos. But I just
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  Speaker 1: wondered because I was thinking about how, yeah, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about technology classes and it was all kind of channel
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you wanted to do it as an elective.
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  Speaker 1: And of course when we talk about tech school versus
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor of Arts type of program, which is a whole
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  Speaker 1: different thing. But I was thinking about that today because
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  Speaker 1: today we wanted to talk about a woman who has
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  Speaker 1: been working to better prepare and train young women in
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  Speaker 1: her community in Nigeria, specifically when it comes to technology
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  Speaker 1: and stem um. So we are talking about Abby so
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  Speaker 1: Yer a gy E a keen Floren and I'm so
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  Speaker 1: sorry we put her name. It is a beautiful name
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  Speaker 1: that I'm trying to make sure I do justice too.
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  Speaker 1: But for please, please forgive us as we are trying
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  Speaker 1: and pronounce it correctly. But she has been making history
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  Speaker 1: and change for the past ten years, probably more working
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  Speaker 1: and teaching young girls around the community about coding and
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  Speaker 1: technology and has been pushing to close a gender gap
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  Speaker 1: in her country when it comes to the technology field.
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  Speaker 1: She established her in Geo Pearl's Africa Foundation program in
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  Speaker 1: twelve and she started the Foundation and Your Full Time
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  Speaker 1: Job to dedicate to her program, which gives women and
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  Speaker 1: girls the opportunity to learn technological skills for professional opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that are not often given to women. According to one site,
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  Speaker 1: there are less than eight percent of Nigerian women in
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  Speaker 1: professional or technological jobs and she wanted to change all
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  Speaker 1: of that right. So, the Pearls African Foundation offers several
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  Speaker 1: different programs to teach girls to learn to code and
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  Speaker 1: other types of programming. It stats to prepare young girls
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  Speaker 1: to move on and have open opportunities in different educational
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  Speaker 1: and career oriented programs. Um Their programs, like Girls Coding,
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  Speaker 1: which is their flagship program, provides young girls who are
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  Speaker 1: typically underserved or oftentimes are not able to find these
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  Speaker 1: programs around them to get the educational opportunity of learning
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  Speaker 1: computer programming and coding, which will hopefully lead to some
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  Speaker 1: jobs and lead to them being able to be financially independent.
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  Speaker 1: But it goes even further by having programs for those
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  Speaker 1: who are interested in fashion, hair and other vocational opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: And it also seeks to help young women when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to addressing trauma, sexual health, mentoring and learning everyday
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  Speaker 1: life skills through their safe space workshops. Right, this program
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  Speaker 1: has so many things within that program that offers to
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  Speaker 1: teach a lot of life skills and it's beautiful. Um
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  Speaker 1: And she's been a fierce advocate for so many of
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  Speaker 1: the young girls in Nigeria, but she's been a fierce
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  Speaker 1: advocate for herself. After the death of her mother at
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  Speaker 1: the age of four, she would say that she learned
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  Speaker 1: to find for herself. Um And at the age of ten,
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  Speaker 1: she found her love for programming and computers when she
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  Speaker 1: started playing with a computer during school break, but truly
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  Speaker 1: loved the world if VI T when she interned with
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  Speaker 1: an I T firm after high school. So in her
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  Speaker 1: CNN interview, she stays, when I got introduced to the
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  Speaker 1: world of a computer programming, I was just a natural
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  Speaker 1: with it. It just flowed. It's all about solving problems
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  Speaker 1: and I never knew that I'd be looking for solutions
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  Speaker 1: to problems regarding less privileged girls. A j. E. A.
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  Speaker 1: Kin Floren went on to attend and graduate from the
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  Speaker 1: University of Lacos and Business Administration after graduating from the
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  Speaker 1: Nigerian Institute of Information of Technology, and recently she graduated
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  Speaker 1: with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard Kendy School
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  Speaker 1: as an Edward S. Mason Bellow, and about her programs,
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to be able to teach other young girls
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  Speaker 1: how to problem solve and make change within their own
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  Speaker 1: communities and family. She goes on in an interviewed to say,
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  Speaker 1: we also want the girls to be leaders and change agents.
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  Speaker 1: We code towards a purpose, so they try to solve
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  Speaker 1: problems relating to what they see. And yeah, that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what these young girls are doing. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: find her, just google her name and there's several different
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  Speaker 1: documentaries talking about what she's doing, including showing different young
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  Speaker 1: women creating new programs, whether it's a new app to
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  Speaker 1: help do direct sales for their family businesses, or being
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  Speaker 1: able to create sites in order to help organize business practices,
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  Speaker 1: or just being able to better market small family businesses.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really cool to see how they're doing this
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  Speaker 1: talking about javascripts, a t mL things that I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I know it's really small art um and these
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  Speaker 1: ladies are changing the livelihoods of their families and creating
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  Speaker 1: independence and bigger professional opportunities for themselves. As pearls Africa
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  Speaker 1: dot Org states for their mission and philosophy, pearls Africa
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  Speaker 1: believes in the value offered by young girls and women
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  Speaker 1: and thus each one deserves a chance to achieve her goals,
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  Speaker 1: find her voice and celebrate a life filled with achievements.
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  Speaker 1: We seek brilliance of focus on female strong points, produce
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  Speaker 1: well rounded females ladies, and promote development and transformation. Beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and a gy a keen for Lauren continues to be
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  Speaker 1: recognized for her work and achievements, including being named one
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  Speaker 1: of the Scene in Heroes in twenty eighteen BBC on
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  Speaker 1: Women of the Year, being honored by the United States
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  Speaker 1: Embassy in Nigeria. UH and we know there's so much
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  Speaker 1: more and we're excited to see how much further she
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  Speaker 1: will go. And just thank you to her for all
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  Speaker 1: of the contributions and continued hard work that she continues
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  Speaker 1: to do. I love seeing all of these different programs
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  Speaker 1: that they have developed, and if you go to their site,
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  Speaker 1: um and if you look at any of her interviews,
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  Speaker 1: they do it all. It seems they try to address
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  Speaker 1: as many issues that affect the young girls and women
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  Speaker 1: in her country, and it's quite moving to see how
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  Speaker 1: far they push and how far they've come, and how
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  Speaker 1: much more she is continuing to do to serve her
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  Speaker 1: community and try to really advocate for the girls there
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  Speaker 1: and teaching them to advocate for themselves. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: glorious thing all around. And I do encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: go look at her their site as well as just
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  Speaker 1: research what they are doing because it is phenomenal. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I love all of this, it's amazing. Definitely go check
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