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Akilah Institute
Rwanda
Akilah is a college that offers a unique model of market relevant education empowering graduates for success in careers and leadership roles.rnrnAkilah aims to build future generations of women leaders and professionals in East Africa through the development of a network of campuses. Akilah will graduate 1000 students by the year 2020.
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Girls Who Code
United States of America
Together with leading educators engineers and entrepreneurs Girls Who Code has developed a new model for computer science education pairing intensive instruction in robotics web design and mobile development with high touch mentorship and exposure led by the industry s top female engineers and entrepreneurs. In its inaugural program Girls Who Code empowered young women from New York City s five boroughs and will launch programs in New York Detroit San Francisco and San Jose in 2013.rn
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Mountain Resiliency Project
Nepal
Mountain Resiliency Project fortifies schools expands local ownership and enhances adaptive capacity to minimize climate disaster. MRP sets itself apart by working with existing schools and monasteries with a triple bottom food energy and talent security approach.MRP s unique program provides self generated revenues for the schools with crop yields while reducing their reliance on biomass for cooking and training students with twenty first century skills. MRP disrupts institutional negligence and levels the patchy development. MRP s model strengthens mountain communities with a holistic approach to innovating food energy and talent security as a key step in an ongoing struggle to build climate change resilience.
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SOKO
United States of America
Soko employs technology to empower and provide equal access to opportunity for marginalized artisans. Our supply chain innovation uses the mobile phone to connect independent artisan entrepreneurs to Soko in an ethical and transparent virtual factory. With Soko s mobile tools artisans have access to an entire world of consumers expanding their business horizons and entrepreneurial prospects.
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The Toothpick Project
United States of America
This project started with the end user in mind. Through the biocontrol of Striga with the FOXY T14 toothpick technology their goals are to reduce labor and increase crop yield for smallholder farmers. Ultimately this technology will improve health through more nutritious diversified crops (impacting both physical and mental wellbeing) increase income by providing enough yield for both family use and sale and provide greater access to education due to this increased income. Because the vast majority of maize farmers are women these results will also impact women's empowerment which will be reflected in a Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (USAID Feed the Future) study that evaluates independence literacy time use domestic violence land ownership and other measures of empowerment.
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