The MAKEHER SPACE project is a Hands-on Technology initiative that teaches young women to create technology and engineering-based solutions that solve problems in their communities, provide information about career options and exposes them to women working successfully in STEAM. Participants in each cohort are put through 4 weeks of intensive training on Website Design, 3D Modelling, Video Marketing and Market Research and Analysis. Subsequently through series of cohorts both online and in-person classes after the second wave of the pandemic in Nigeria 887 girls and women have been trained and many have returned for the hybrid sessions where graduated participants return to perfect their skills in our workshops.

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• Nigeria

The project has involved partners which are government ministries, religious bodies and and socail community bodies which are inculcating the project into their youth empowerment programmes which is replicating it in many communities the project is held.

The programme is sustainable because all implementation partners have been trained and has our new curriculums. They intend to continue work with their students in their communities after project is concluded. Numerous volunteering instructor youths and teachers hired will be including the projects curriculum in their relative classes. By this the project will be sustainable as it has been imbedded in the fabric of the education system in the communities where the project has been held.

The MAKEHER SPACE programme is a technology initiative designed to teach young women to create engineering-based solutions to solve problems in their communities and provide information about career options. This objective of our programme is in line with the WSIS values on capacity building which states that ''Each person should have the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge in order to understand, participate actively in, and benefit fully from, the Information Society and the knowledge economy. Literacy and universal primary education are key factors for building a fully inclusive information society, paying particular attention to the special needs of girls and women. Given the wide range of ICT and information specialists required at all levels, building institutional capacity deserves special attention''.