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Girls in Tech — Striving For All's AI, Coding and Entrepreneurship Track at the Thrive Center, Douala

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 56% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Striving For All's Thrive Center in Douala runs a Technovation-partnered Girls in Tech track teaching coding, AI concepts and digital entrepreneurship to girls aged 12–18; 91 of its 2024–25 cohort earned AI and professional-skills certificates after 8 months.

91 students
Students earning certificates, 2024-2025 cohort (2024-2025)
~100 students
Cohort size (2024-2025)
5 students
Top performers selected for internship (2024-2025)
~400 children and teenagers
Total trained since centre opened (2023-2025)
Girls in Tech — Striving For All's AI, Coding and Entrepreneurship Track at the Thrive Center, Douala

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Striving For All (Thrive Center), in partnership with Technovation
Period
2023–2025 (ongoing)
Keywords
NGO, youth education, girls in tech, digital skills, entrepreneurship

Context

Striving For All (SFA) is a nonprofit running the Thrive Center in Douala, Cameroon, since 2023, offering technology and soft-skills training to secondary-school-age youth.

Objectives

Teach girls aged 12-18 coding, AI concepts and digital entrepreneurship through a dedicated Girls in Tech track developed with the global nonprofit Technovation.

Activities

The track teaches block-based and Python programming, web development, and how artificial intelligence can be applied to everyday problems, alongside mentorship from female engineers and entrepreneurs. The 2024-2025 cohort was drawn from partner schools including Lycee Joss and Lycee de New Bell.

Results

Nearly 100 students took part in the youth development curriculum; after eight months, 91 students earned certificates in artificial intelligence and other professional skills, and five top performers were selected for a follow-on internship programme. Since the center opened in 2023, close to 400 children and teenagers have been trained in total.

Conclusions

The programme's evidence is self-reported by the organisation and corroborated by independent local press coverage, but it has not been externally evaluated, and outcome data is limited to completion counts rather than measured learning gains or post-programme employment/education tracking.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Single NGO-run community centre; no public budget disclosed.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — 8-month cohort programme; centre operating since 2023.
Staffing & skills
Striving For All (SFA) nonprofit, Thrive Center staff, Technovation (partner nonprofit), Volunteer female engineers and entrepreneurs as mentors

Conditions for success

  • Partnership with an established global nonprofit (Technovation) for curriculum/framework
  • Dedicated girls-only track within a broader youth-development curriculum
  • Follow-on internship pathway for top performers

Common failure modes

  • Self-reported by the organisation with no external evaluation
  • Outcome data limited to completion counts, not measured learning gains or post-programme tracking

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding

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