Girls in ICT Day at Ndzundza Mabhoko School

We celebrated the Girls in ICT at Ndzundza Mabhoko Sec School on the 29th April 2026. A code club with 40 girls addressed by Amrita Kaur (Pilot) and Lutfyyan Patel Cybersecurity Specialist and AI instructor from Siyafunda Ctc. Thandeka Bhila's song became a brilliant icebreaker 'Im somewhere in the future, and look much better than I look right now,'

There are many inspiring stories about career journeys out there but these girls listened to a 12 year career journey from Amrita, whose journey was back and forth. Her journey illustrated the power of resilience, perseverance and dedication that turns adversity into triumph. From her youngest age she wanted to be a pilot but now she is about to own her aircraft and a pilot school too. Despite her challenges she faced back then in her country, in obtaining her pilot license, she remained focus and clearly assisted by her natural resilience passed on to her at an early age by her parents 

These girls were brave, every pause of the Q&A session, many good questions kept pouring, about the existence of AI, the ethical use and its safety. Their curiosity left us challenged and it also gave us some moment to reflect about having AI literacy initiatives for these young ones. Definitely, it will be our next action.

The session ended with a hands on activities led by Nomusa Keninda, where girls created their coding activities using Scratch programming language on the Raspberry Pi Foundation website Codeclub.org to showcase the Sustainable Development Goals in the community. Brilliant ideas of tackling poverty, saving water, quality education and many more that demonstrated the power of girls in the rural villages to sustain their lives. 

Their certificate ceremony created a long lasting memory of the day. They celebrated their resilience to education and committed to their studies to become role models to other girls in their community.