Attitudes & Motivations For Women Entering Technology Careers In Kenya
Despite narrowing the gender gap in student enrollment at the primary and secondary school levels in Kenya, a wide gender [...]
Akirachix’s Home Visits
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb inside [...]
Foundation course for June 2016
Whether you're a beginner who wants to get started in web development, a designer looking to hand-code their concepts, or [...]
Powerful lessons on mentorship: A recap of the 2016 Mentorship pairing exercise
(Guest Blog post by Judy Alice King'ori, 2016 Mentor) Akirachix held a mentorship pairing exercise, dubbed "speed mentoring" on 9th [...]
First Semester down, two more to go for the AkiraChix training program!
This journey began in October 2015(as it does every year). We received more than 60 applications, and successfully recruited 16 [...]
Connecting with AkiraChix Training Program Alumni
In the last six years of AkiraChix’s existence, we have graduated 89 girls, and one boy from the AkiraChix training [...]
AkiraChix’s 2015 in Review
Happy 2016 and new month from the AkiraChix team. The last quarter of 2015 was fairly busy for AkiraChix. Here [...]
Changing communities, one woman at a time!
We would like to thank the the President of Kenya,President of the United States and the organizers of the Global [...]
Why you should be an AkiraChix mentor
We recently put out a call for applications for AkiraChix mentors, and have received an overwhelming response. With one more [...]
Akirachix Graduation – Class of 2014
It has been a great one year and 3months. In September 2013, we began searching for girls who would [...]