https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50 en-us 2018-12-19 16:09:51 UTC 2025-09-25 14:58:51 UTC hello@padlet.com abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316207523 1.What kind of technology do they teach the girls?
2.How many other people help Abisoye teach the girls?
3.How many girls do they teach each year?
4.How many years has she been doing this?
5.How does it benefit the girls when they grow up. 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316207523 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316213614 Abisoye started working for a IT firm Abisoye started the Pearls Africa foundation in June 2015 and it has been a success ever since.She noticed the gap between  technology jobs between men and woman ]]> 2018-12-20 16:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316213614 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316428333 1.Coding helps the girls learn computer skills that can help them get a job when they are older.
2.The coding program lets the girls experience a life without poverty.
3.The girls in the program sees Abisoye as a mother and the other girls as one big family.

]]> 2018-12-21 16:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316428333 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316433155 The girls Abisoye are helping are solving problems with coding that they see everyday in their community.Most of the girls come from Lagos,Nigeria”the largest floating slum”.They also call it “the silicon valley of Nigeria” because the city is built on their manufacturing of oil.Abisoye is trying to give the girls new opportunities because many don’t attend school.She is giving them a new understanding of technology that can help them later on in life when they apply for a job or a college.Abisoye went to Nigeria to help underprivileged girls see a better state of living using technology.She has taught a new curriculum to girls using technology such as computers.She has  taught these girls coding to change the gender gap of technology jobs.Coding can help the girls in IT jobs when they are older.So far she has helped 400 girls in Lagos,Nigeria to learn the way of coding and computers.]]> 2018-12-21 16:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316433155 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316435030 ”when girls learn to code the world will run without bugs”-”I believe girls should be given opportunities.”

]]> 2018-12-21 16:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316435030 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316439571 People can get involved by donating to their cause and by reading more about what they do ]]> 2018-12-21 17:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316439571 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316440297 2018-12-21 17:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316440297 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316440633 The first picture is some of the girls she helps code.]]> 2018-12-21 17:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316440633 abaker9853 https://padlet.com/abaker9853/jn7wuoke2h50/wish/316441505 Toner, Kathleen. “Disadvantaged Girls Change Their Communities by Learning to Code.” CNN, Cable News Network, 10 Dec. 2018, www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/world/cnnheroes-abisoye-ajayi-akinfolarin-pearls-africa-foundation/index.html.

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