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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm not gonna stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've never told your protection of I heart radio. Annie.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever play or do those computer games where

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Speaker 1: it taught you how to type? Oh? I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I ever did that. I took typewriting. What's that called?

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Speaker 1: I bet that it's such a foreign concept to students.

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Speaker 1: I did that too. It was in technology or like,

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Speaker 1: I t like technology class, and we had a whole

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Speaker 1: like typing class. But when I was in third grade,

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Speaker 1: there was this whole program and if we aren't our time,

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Speaker 1: you can go in and do this game computer program

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Speaker 1: and test yourself. Oh, and I would do that as

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Speaker 1: a third grader. I loved it. We we didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't do anything like that. But we had competitions where,

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Speaker 1: you know, you'd get this very complicated sin It's just

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Speaker 1: the type out complicated in terms of like the letters

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Speaker 1: were far away from each other or whatever, and whoever

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Speaker 1: could type them out the quickest would get a prize,

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Speaker 1: and whoever was the slowest had to do ten push ups.

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Speaker 1: This was my typewriting class. That's a dumb competition. B

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Speaker 1: So do you know how many words a minute you

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Speaker 1: can type I used to at my height, I want

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Speaker 1: to say, it was like, yeah, I bet I'm now

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Speaker 1: like more of a one twenty type of person. But

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Speaker 1: who knows. I have to watch myself type. I can't

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Speaker 1: do the look away m hm anymore interesting. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if if I ever could, I have to watch

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Speaker 1: myself because I do so many typos. If I like

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Speaker 1: come back and like, it's entirely typos. But I just

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Speaker 1: wondered because I was thinking about how, yeah, we talk

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Speaker 1: about technology classes and it was all kind of channel

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Speaker 1: whether or not you wanted to do it as an elective.

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Speaker 1: And of course when we talk about tech school versus

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Speaker 1: Bachelor of Arts type of program, which is a whole

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Speaker 1: different thing. But I was thinking about that today because

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Speaker 1: today we wanted to talk about a woman who has

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Speaker 1: been working to better prepare and train young women in

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Speaker 1: her community in Nigeria, specifically when it comes to technology

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Speaker 1: and stem um. So we are talking about Abby so

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Speaker 1: Yer a gy E a keen Floren and I'm so

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Speaker 1: sorry we put her name. It is a beautiful name

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Speaker 1: that I'm trying to make sure I do justice too.

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Speaker 1: But for please, please forgive us as we are trying

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Speaker 1: and pronounce it correctly. But she has been making history

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Speaker 1: and change for the past ten years, probably more working

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Speaker 1: and teaching young girls around the community about coding and

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Speaker 1: technology and has been pushing to close a gender gap

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Speaker 1: in her country when it comes to the technology field.

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Speaker 1: She established her in Geo Pearl's Africa Foundation program in

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Speaker 1: twelve and she started the Foundation and Your Full Time

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Speaker 1: Job to dedicate to her program, which gives women and

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Speaker 1: girls the opportunity to learn technological skills for professional opportunities

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Speaker 1: that are not often given to women. According to one site,

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Speaker 1: there are less than eight percent of Nigerian women in

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Speaker 1: professional or technological jobs and she wanted to change all

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Speaker 1: of that right. So, the Pearls African Foundation offers several

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Speaker 1: different programs to teach girls to learn to code and

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Speaker 1: other types of programming. It stats to prepare young girls

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Speaker 1: to move on and have open opportunities in different educational

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Speaker 1: and career oriented programs. Um Their programs, like Girls Coding,

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Speaker 1: which is their flagship program, provides young girls who are

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Speaker 1: programs around them to get the educational opportunity of learning

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Speaker 1: computer programming and coding, which will hopefully lead to some

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Speaker 1: jobs and lead to them being able to be financially independent.

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Speaker 1: But it goes even further by having programs for those

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Speaker 1: who are interested in fashion, hair and other vocational opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And it also seeks to help young women when it

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Speaker 1: comes to addressing trauma, sexual health, mentoring and learning everyday

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Speaker 1: life skills through their safe space workshops. Right, this program

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Speaker 1: has so many things within that program that offers to

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Speaker 1: teach a lot of life skills and it's beautiful. Um

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Speaker 1: And she's been a fierce advocate for so many of

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Speaker 1: the young girls in Nigeria, but she's been a fierce

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Speaker 1: advocate for herself. After the death of her mother at

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Speaker 1: the age of four, she would say that she learned

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Speaker 1: to find for herself. Um And at the age of ten,

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Speaker 1: with it. It just flowed. It's all about solving problems

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Speaker 1: to problems regarding less privileged girls. A j. E. A.

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Speaker 1: Kin Floren went on to attend and graduate from the

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Speaker 1: University of Lacos and Business Administration after graduating from the

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Speaker 1: Nigerian Institute of Information of Technology, and recently she graduated

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Speaker 1: with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard Kendy School

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Speaker 1: as an Edward S. Mason Bellow, and about her programs,

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Speaker 1: she wanted to be able to teach other young girls

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Speaker 1: communities and family. She goes on in an interviewed to say,

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Speaker 1: we also want the girls to be leaders and change agents.

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Speaker 1: We code towards a purpose, so they try to solve

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Speaker 1: problems relating to what they see. And yeah, that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what these young girls are doing. If you want to

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Speaker 1: find her, just google her name and there's several different

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Speaker 1: documentaries talking about what she's doing, including showing different young

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Speaker 1: women creating new programs, whether it's a new app to

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Speaker 1: able to create sites in order to help organize business practices,

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Speaker 1: or just being able to better market small family businesses.

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Speaker 1: So it's really cool to see how they're doing this

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Speaker 1: talking about javascripts, a t mL things that I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but I know it's really small art um and these

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Speaker 1: ladies are changing the livelihoods of their families and creating

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Speaker 1: independence and bigger professional opportunities for themselves. As pearls Africa

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Speaker 1: dot Org states for their mission and philosophy, pearls Africa

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Speaker 1: believes in the value offered by young girls and women

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Speaker 1: and thus each one deserves a chance to achieve her goals,

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Speaker 1: find her voice and celebrate a life filled with achievements.

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Speaker 1: We seek brilliance of focus on female strong points, produce

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Speaker 1: well rounded females ladies, and promote development and transformation. Beautiful

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Speaker 1: and a gy a keen for Lauren continues to be

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Speaker 1: recognized for her work and achievements, including being named one

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Speaker 1: Embassy in Nigeria. UH and we know there's so much

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Speaker 1: more and we're excited to see how much further she

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Speaker 1: will go. And just thank you to her for all

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Speaker 1: of the contributions and continued hard work that she continues

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Speaker 1: to do. I love seeing all of these different programs

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Speaker 1: that they have developed, and if you go to their site,

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Speaker 1: they do it all. It seems they try to address

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Speaker 1: much more she is continuing to do to serve her

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