Women's Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our #WCW this week is a Nigerian photojournalist, documentary photographer nurse and a humanitarian worker from Borno state. Her Instagram project @bitsofborno is a unique page which showcases the reality of life in some parts of Nigeria many won’t go for a while. Her work has been published in The New York Times, CNN Africa, BBC and Voice …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In February 2021, the Digital Generation Youth Project hosted an online training series titled 21st Century Skills and Recognition with Open Badges. The training lasted for 6 different days, from the 1st of February to the 17th of February. It was an opportunity for project partners and other interested participants to learn about the …
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PRESS RELEASE The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre. 2 Babalola Gardens, off Freedom Way, Ikate – Lekki, Lagos. Tuesday February 16th 2021. W.TEC Announces the Return of W.TEC Academy to lagos W.TEC is excited to announce the return of her after-school STEM programme for girls in public schools to Lagos State. The programme will be conducted in conjunction …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]W.TEC’s Advisory Board serves as a critical community champion for the organisation. Members of the Advisory Board share their gifts in service to W.TEC’s mission by providing the organization with their professional expertise; their diverse knowledge of constituent perspectives; their connections to local, national and international resources, colleagues and peers; and their philanthropic support or …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The annual global campaign – “16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women” is here again. Slated for (November 25 – December 10) is set aside to create a sustained awareness for the fight against gender based violence. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC has some big news for you! As the season of giving approaches we are are glad to announce that we will be participating in the global day of giving – Giving Tuesday to accept donations for our 2021 STEM programmes for girls. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our #WCW for this week is one of our extraordinary women who are changing the face of accountability and justice for the average Nigerian. She is no other person but Kiki Mordi whom we will all remember from her work on exposing our shamless Sex for grades lectures in Nigeria and Ghana. Mordi was …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC’s Academy makes a quick return to train our Ogun state participants at Ilaro and Joga-Orile the art of harnessing renewable energy using improvised electronics. The quick training is due to constraints from recent COVID19 restrictions and protocols. Thankfully with the window of opportunity we were able to squeeze in something amazing for our …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “The youth are the future” is a common saying. Over the last week, we have realised that the youth are NOW! Years of systemic police brutality has exploded into the #EndSARS protests. Since last week, thousands of young people across the country and in the diaspora have taken to the streets to demand for …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our #WCW this week is a woman who needs no introduction. Aisha Yesufu (born 1974) is a Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, an advocacy group that brings attention to the abduction of over 200 girls, from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Yesufu was among the women …
