Women History Month: These tech firms are giving scholarships to girls

The month of March has been put aside to have fun girls as it’s Women’s History Month. And this yr, girls have been celebrated in a formidable means with extra organizations advocating the necessity to have a extra female-inclusive work surroundings.

In a bid to help girls, many organizations have provide you with numerous methods to have fun girls’s achievements and likewise create consciousness of gender bias since there may be extra work to be carried out to succeed in a balanced range within the tech discipline.

If you wish to kickstart a profession in tech as a lady or searching for funding for your enterprise, there are various alternatives obtainable.

Flutterwave

In celebration of girls’s historical past month, Flutterwave might be giving $2500 every in grants to women-led companies in chosen African international locations. Winning companies may also be supported with free video content material creation and on-line visibility, via paid and natural channels. Winners will get entry to an unique group the place they are going to be skilled and mentored via workplace hours by the most effective entrepreneurs of their fields. Mentors might be chosen from 7 international locations protecting Technology, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Operations, Investments, and many others.

You can apply here

TeamApt

TeamApt, the Nigerian fintech firm that gives digital monetary companies options and cost infrastructure additionally launched their first Women in Tech Internship Programme. The program has been established in a bid to handle a number of the gender disparity that at the moment exists in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem – notably throughout the fintech area.

The six-month, paid internship has been set as much as present girls with the chance to develop their abilities by gaining the required expertise to advance their careers throughout the tech ecosystem. TeamApt’s purpose is to supply girls with the chance to develop their abilities by gaining the required expertise to advance their careers.

Applications at the moment are open. Successful candidates, based mostly on their efficiency and obtainable openings, might be supplied full-time employment throughout the Lagos-based firm.

Cowrywise

Cowrywise creed is investing in 75 girls who’re interested by kick-starting a profession in design. The gender within the design hole is an element of a bigger story about how girls don’t get pleasure from entry to abilities that may assist them earn extra. So, in case you are a lady and are interested by beginning a profession in design (product design, graphic design, and model id design) you may apply here.

Successful candidates get pleasure from totally paid lessons that span between 12 and 24 weeks, relying on the paths they select. Upon completion, the candidates stand the prospect to intern at high corporations.

Ingressive4good

Ingressive4good and Genezabrands are giving scholarships to 1000 African girls to learn to design (product design, graphics design, and model id design).