Tech To Empower Women & Girls

HOW CHANGEMAKERS ARE HELPING CREATE A BETTER WORLD FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS THROUGH TECH

We Encourage is on a mission to make the world a better place for girls and women. Their special focus is in preventing child marriages and encouraging education instead, as well as supporting victims of intimate partner violence.

We Encourage offer a fundraising platform for individual fundraisers and NGOs for causes aimed for women and girl's empowerment and a conversational AI tool to support and guide victims of intimate partner violence 🇫🇮

HOW WE MAKE CHANGE

We Encourage were looking for volunteers to help them with Marketing, Project Management, Research, Writing and Fundraising in order to address the Sustainable Development Goals of Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3), Quality Education (SDG 4), Gender Equality (SDG 5) and Partnership for the Goals (SDG 17).

We connected them with skilled ChangeMakers. Here’s how they have helped 🙌

“I FEEL LUCKY AND GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY MY SKILLS TO EMPOWER WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS”

Eleni Sia 🇬🇷

‘My name is Eleni and I am from Greece. I recently graduated from UCL in MSc Paediatric Neuropsychology. I obtained my BSc Psychology from University of Sussex. My professional background involves working with children and adults with neurological disorders both in clinical and research settings.

At We Encourage, I aid the Artificial Intelligence Research Team to build a chatbot for providing psycho-social support and guidance to women victims of domestic violence. My duties involve maintaining and coding interview data and then inputting the data into the chatbot, while working collaboratively with people from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds.

I feel lucky and grateful to be part of an international team which has given me the opportunity to apply my skills to empower women and young girls, giving them a voice and changing their everyday lives.’

“MY EXPERIENCE ALLOWED ME TO DEVELOP THE SKILLS I HAVE LEARNED ACADEMICALLY”

Harkiran Bharij 🇬🇧

‘My name is Harkiran Bharij and I am from the United Kingdom. I have a degree in sociology from the University of Westminster and have a great interest in development and research. At We Encourage, I have been using my research skills to analyse and interpret literature on domestic violence so that the most important parts can be delved into.

My experience volunteering for the project has been very insightful and informative, allowing me to develop the skills that I have learned academically within a professional environment while also giving me the option to learn something new.’

RESULT

“It was very smooth and easy onboarding experience. I truly enjoyed the chance to notice how many people were willing to support our mission.”

ANNA JUUSELA
FOUNDER, WE ENCOURAGE

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