Apps and Girls – Creating Digital Generation

Our programs

Coding clubs

We conduct weekly coding sessions to girls in secondary schools to help them develop their own projects and succeed in their careers.

Tech & innovation Events

We organize events such as workshops, exhibitions, hackathons, Code Camps, boot camps and the Girls Summit to ignite girls’ interests in technology.

Jovia program

Advanced IT and Online incubation program for underprivileged girls and young women to be able to compete in the ICT sector, secure employment or create their own tech-based enterprises.

Adalace program

A Skills Development Program for unemployed female graduates in ICTs aiming at providing them with critical skills needed to reach their full potential in the ICT sector.

Mentorship & incubation

We provide mentorship and incubation support for emerging tech entrepreneurs to successfully launch and scale-up of their IT-based enterprises

Get involved

Join our cause by mentoring a girl, donating or volunteering in our programs

We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging the technology gender gap in Tanzania and across sub-Sahara Africa.

At Apps and Girls, we empower girls and young women to create the world they want to live in using technology by giving them skills and a platform to become effective tech-entrepreneurs and tech role models with including quality software and hardware programming skills.

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Startups created in 2018

WE ENVISION TO SEE GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED BY ICT ARE ABLE TO CREATE THE WORLD THEY WANT TO LIVE IN

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Impact Stories

MY DIGNITY

My Dignity a project done by Magdalena Mhelezi. My Dignity provides a web-based and SMS platform that gives tips and information to parents on how to communicate and initiate a conversation on Sexual Reproductive Health. My Dignity also provides Sexual Reproductive Health Education directly to girls adolescents through the same platforms. www.mydignity.or.tz

ZERO UTI

ZERO UTI a project done by Meyness Edwin, Sandra Hashim and Batouly Abbas. Zero UTI provides a web-based and an SMS platform to raise awareness to students about the disease called UTI. According to the research we conducted in 5 public schools in Dar es salaam, we found out that girls are the most affected group

ePharma

ePharma a project done by Julieth Sewava. Is a website and a mobile app that promotes good health and well-being to all individuals as it enables medicine users to scan the bar-code available on the labels of medicines so as to ensure their validity before consumption.