Programs / Girls Who Build
Girls Who Build
A two year computing track for secondary school girls, taught after school, ending in a portfolio and a paid internship.
Girls Who Build runs inside public secondary schools three afternoons a week. Year one covers programming fundamentals, data literacy, and hardware. Year two is project work: every participant ships something real and defends it to a panel.
The program supplies the machines, the connectivity, and the instructors, because asking a school with no working lab to host a computing class is how these programs quietly die.
How it works
The foundation partners with a host school, funds the lab, and contracts instructors who are working engineers rather than volunteers. Cohorts are capped at 25 so the teaching stays personal. Graduates are placed into paid internships with partner companies.
Who qualifies
Girls in years 10 through 12 at a partner public school. No prior computing experience is required or expected.
Other pillars
Oribamise Scholars
Full tuition, a laptop, a stipend, and a working mentor for students who earned their place and cannot afford to keep it.
Room to Learn
Assessments, classroom aides, assistive technology, and sensory adapted rooms for autistic and neurodivergent children whose families are waiting or paying out of pocket.
First Thousand Days
Maternal and infant care for the period that decides the rest of a child's life, delivered through clinics that already have the community's trust.