Ep. 425 - Jamila Mayanja, Founder of Smart Girls Uganda
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Jamila Mayanja is an Award winning Ugandan social entrepreneur and educator. She is the Founder and CEO of Smart Girls Uganda a social enterprise that empowers and supports girls and women through trainings to build their life and economical skills. Smart Girls has famous girls and women empowerment programs like the Girls with tools where they offer hands-on skilling to vulnerable girls and young women in male dominated non-traditional STEM careers like Automotive and electrical engineering. She also innovated a recycled solar smart bag, that is a comprehensive menstrual hygiene kit/back packer with educational programming designed with and for girls in Uganda. To date Smart Girls Uganda has skilled 300 young women and helped keep more than 30,000 adolescent girls in school during their menstruation periods.
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