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EPISODE · May 27, 2024 · 17 MIN

Ep. 425 - Jamila Mayanja, Founder of Smart Girls Uganda

from Take it from the Ironwoman · host Jamila Mayanja, Susanne Mueller

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.Facebook - Jamila Mayanja and Smart Girls Foundation Uganda.Instagram - Jamila Mayanja and SmartgirlsugTwitter - Jamila_Mayanja and SmartgirlsguLinkedIn - Jamila Mayanja and Smart Girls Foundation Uganda  ***********Susanne Mueller  / www.susannemueller.biz  TEDX Talk, May 2022: Running and Life: 5KM Formula for YOUR  Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_5Er1cLvY Join Substack: https://substack.com/@susannemuellernyc?Enjoy one coaching session for free if you are a yearly subscriber. 800+ weekly blogs / 500+ podcasts / 1 Ironman Triathlon /  5 half ironman races / 26 marathon races / 4 books / 1 Mt. Kilimanjaro / 1 TEDx Talk 

Talking to the Founder and CEO of Smart Girls in Uganda | She is one of 14 children She is offering STEM education girls 14 years and older She offered 80% programs for girls, 20% for boys - inclusion is important Her BIG dream is to have a skill village not only a school.... Her favorite past time is watching: Zootopia, Frozen, El Canto

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