STEM IS THE FUTURE

The future has no end and limiting yourself means threatening it. Grow technologically to ensure you’re steps ahead innovation-wise to be able to solve all the challenges as they arise because they will always be there and so will your potential self if activated fully.

Involving yourself in STEM means solving most of the world’s problems as it is from observation, experimentation, and understanding that enhance analysis in arriving at solutions.

The women in the workforce are few due to discrimination in a male-dominated world. The large number of unemployed women tends to make them vulnerable and exposes them to danger as they try to address their needs with little to no income. Not leaving behind the disability challenge in some, which is stereotyped as low performance or no performance at all while at work.

Why Tech for Women? Empowering women means empowering the future. The population of women is by far larger than that of men, and accommodating all of them in jobs is almost impossible. With tech, self-employment is enabled along with the creation of more flexible jobs to cut short the unemployment gap.

Tech bridges the illiteracy level as not only the educated can tag along but everyone as it is more of skills than theory. Those in marginalized areas benefit a whole lot when these initiatives are brought to them. The enemy of success is not starting at all, we are sisters and sisterhood is our business, and anything to grow it, is worth the risk.

In honor of girls in tech, I recognize the Ibuka Initiative, whose mission is to ensure that adolescent girls, disabled people, and women generally in Kenya are getting tech skills to equip them for the unpredictable future by ensuring that they are capable of handling tech-related work. While at it, they ensure that they are never vulnerable and at the same time improve education, health, and the life of the girl child generally. They are known for touching the lives of girls living in informal settlements and marginalized areas to ensure that the unkind part of life doesn’t overwhelm them and cripple their capabilities before they realize reassuring them that they can get everything they want in life and that challenges fuels success when the heart settles to do what it desires and works towards it.

The Ibuka initiative is seeking collaboration and donations to ensure that they can handle much at a go and ensure that the dreams of women are visualized to the latter. With tech, everything is possible just that lack of sufficient funding slows down the journey, but that doesn’t stop them from reaching who they can and when possible, the impact is still there and hopefully, someday their warm gesture will turn into the sunshine and accommodate a large number as they have always intended. Currently working on the term slow but sure and from the look of things they are achieving a lot and impacting society significantly.

To all the other initiatives supporting women by ensuring that they are fully involved in Tech, thank you for reminding our own that STEM is not gender biased; rather everything brains at work who realize that the future is wanting and collective power to shift spaces and make them inhabitable for all of us is a priority. Sleeping on your potential and failing to work on your dreams ends up stealing stability from the future. Dear ladies, go Tech as its worth grows with time, and its demand can land you in spaces you never dreamt of. With tech, everything can be resolved, and life becomes easier.