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She was a talented and willing problem-solving individual who simply lacked the opportunities to put her abilities to practical use. \"I just needed a way to put all the buzzing ideas in my brain to paper and then to process,\" She says.\n\nAt the time, the only opportunities within her reach were voluntary activities in social work. Though helping others provided a wonderful sense of fulfillment, economic progress seemed out of reach and her dream of working in tech became fleeting. Like many young women and girls, Mercy shouldered the consequence of the lack of opportunity and the necessary hard skills to break through- a travesty that stunts the career growth development of many young women in Africa.\n\nHowever, once Mercy enrolled in the codeHive program, the training she received slowly linked the gaps and translated them into the opportunities she needed to pave the way not only for herself, but for many other women in her cohort.\n\nToday, she works hard to keep abreast of the changing needs at her workplace. She consistently delivers on her tasks — steadily amassing a track record of excellence despite being the youngest, and only female in her team. This comes as no surprise, but it is a matter of great pride for AkiraChix.\n\nNow that she is an earning member of the family, Mercy has more financial freedom and her family’s financial status and livelihood has greatly improved. It’s a win-win that benefits not only her but her broader community.\n\nMercy is definitely a rising star, she carries herself with a gentle but firm confidence. An attribute that has enabled her remarkable growth since graduating from AkiraChix. She embodies the hope of change possible if only we invest more in young-women-designed learning solutions fit for the ever-growing and changing industry.\n\nThere is an urgent need to build the female talent pipeline across Africa. The difficult part of this is that there is so much work to be done. 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I didn’t understand why I couldn’t live my dreams because my parents didn’t have money,” Wendy recalls.\n\nIt took some convincing from her aunt for Wendy to understand the need to adapt to the new situation and attend a different high school within Nairobi.\n\nOn completion of high school in 2018, Wendy toyed with the idea of a career as a doctor, but it did not align with her interests. Then she considered journalism but she got discouragements about it not being such a lucrative career. Wendy, seeing that her elder sister was a successful graphic designer after only a year of training, decided to settle on the same path.\n\nBut once again, financial constraints came between her and achieving her dreams. That was how she opted to try volunteering.\n\nA friend told her about, <a href=\"https://www.crimesipoa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crime Si Poa</a>, an organization which provides alternative creative and entrepreneurial outlets to at-risk and vulnerable youth susceptible to engaging in criminal activities.\n\n“I was idle at home, and here was an engagement that provided me with fare and lunch. 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Her supervisor Calvince saw her keenness to learn and started to walk Wendy through basic software development skills in CSS/HTML.\n\n“Seeing how the software worked on the browser was amazing,” Wendy smiles reminiscent.\n\nWendy was immediately drawn to technology, she started researching online on technology companies while also studying the work they did. In November 2019, after 5 months of volunteering at DDD, Calvince informed her of the <a href=\"http://www.akirachix.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AkiraChix</a> <a href=\"http://www.akirachix.com/apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">codeHive program</a> intake that was happening at that same time. She did her research on the program, following the stories and career developments of the codeHive alumni and after a while she was completely sold.\n\n> “It’s a free program, tech, only women and it’s a residential program in the Nairobi suburbs of Kilimani. 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All 52 students in the codeHive residential program had to go home.\n\nThankfully, all hope was not lost because at the start of April 2020, [codeHive Lite](https://medium.com/@akirachix/innovation-in-times-of-adversity-f0a9fc22b504) was kicked off and classes picked back up virtually, though not without it's challenges.\n\n“It was hard, we had to study via WhatsApp,  there were internet connection issues for some of us, we couldn't talk to our friends until the end of classes, I had to find a balance between learning and doing my house chores, then there was my noisy kid brother, not to mention how bad Mum's business was doing thanks to the pandemic. It was a lot to handle but I did my best.”\n\nWendy decided to resume volunteer work with Crime Si Poa in between classes where she would get a stipend and lunch- a perk that helped ease the pressures at home. 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