© {reprograma}
{reprograma}, Brazil
Founded in 2016 by three women, {reprograma} is a non-profit institution working to close the gender gap and diversify companies’ teams in Brazil’s technology sector. With plans to expand throughout Latin America, they provide free training to under-represented and low-income women and adolescent girls who are passionate about technology but who do not have the support or financial means to pursue studies in the area.
{reprograma} is awarded for its project, Reprogramming Brazil’s technology sector – Including Afro descendants and transgender women, which is working to close the gender gap in Brazil’s technology sector through the provision of training to thousands of under-represented and low-income women and girls in coding and other in-demand digital skills.
Over 10,000 women and adolescent girls have participated in free 18-week programming bootcamps, and technical events and hackathons.
© Girl MOVE Academy
Girl MOVE Academy, Mozambique
Girl MOVE Academy is a non-profit organization that aims to ensure women and girls have equal access to education, opportunities to actively participate in society and to break the cycle of poverty through the empowerment of a new generation of changemakers. The organization’s approach nurtures and develops female role models, with a multiplier effect through mentorship and sisterhood circles.
Girl MOVE Academy is recognized for its project, Unblocking girls’ education and opportunities through new reference models, which empowers adolescent girls and young women to have equal access to education through mentorship, storytelling, sisterhood circles and a unique model of intergenerational support.
Since 2014, the project has changed the lives of more than 5,000 adolescent girls and young women. Today, 85% of participants have successfully transitioned to secondary school education, compared to under 35% of girls nationally. The project’s innovative model is also being replicated to other provinces.