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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Women in the tech sector have called on female students to embrace technical courses to bridge the present gender gap in the field.<\/p>\n

This is part of an ongoing national campaign organised by HerinTech, a non-profit organisation founded in 2020, to encourage female students to take on and enjoy technical courses, following the celebrations of International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

Olive Tuyishime, a lecturer at University of Rwanda (UR), researcher, and PhD holder in Soil Sciences with Specialisation in Agricultural Water Management, is one of the women in the sector encouraging female students to associate with tech agricultural-related courses in order to scale up the low number of females in higher institutions, and field at large.<\/p>\n

Reaching food security, she said, requires more technical experts so that Rwandans shift from traditional to modern agriculture practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is also a science. We need to catch up with men in the tech sector,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage them to pursue higher education as we have few girls continuing at higher levels. I obtained my PhD, but not all girls who make it face discouragement from their families or culture. Girls are needed in agriculture courses, as our agricultural practices are primarily traditional. We require apps that support farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuyishime also said that there are still areas with a very limited number of female students, such as agriculture mechanisation, and soil and water engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those subjects, you find that girls are fewer compared to boys. They feel like those courses are for boys,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Alice Mungwaneza, a third-year student and the founder of Spring Initiative, and Joanna Michelle Umutoni, who\u2019s designing the agriculture-related project to help farmers increase yield, are some of the promising students at Rwanda Coding Academy (RCA).<\/p>\n

Alice Mungwaneza, the founder of Spring Initiative, a programme that is currently aiding 18 students in computer courses.<\/p>\n

Spring Initiative is a programme that helps neighbouring students in Mukamira Sector, Nyabihu District, and the initiative is currently aiding 18 students in computer courses over weekends, before joining an advanced level, with a target to reach at least 200 by 2024.<\/p>\n

Umutoni is creating an app to assist farmers in boosting their production through a mobile and web platform to enhance food security. She drew inspiration from her aunt who founded a tech firm in Singapore.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I also want to build my own company where I will be able to help others who did not get a chance to go to school or learn about tech,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

Speaking to The New Times regarding what makes female students find tech-related courses difficult, Pacifique Linda Ikirezi, founder of HerinTech, said she went through similar circumstances, which is why she chose to find a way to solve the problem.<\/p>\n

Through her HerinTech, she prepares camps for coding and other technological-related courses \u201cto close that gender gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joanna Michelle Umutoni is creating an app to assist farmers through a mobile and web platform to enhance food security.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re running this campaign for a month to raise awareness on current challenges where most female students do not advance into universities and also as part of Women\u2019s Day Celebration,\u201d she said during the International Women\u2019s Day celebration at Rwanda Coding Academy in Nyabihu District.<\/p>\n

According to Paul Umukunzi, Director General of Rwanda TVET Board, regular awareness campaigns are conducted targeting female students as well as scholarship schemes targeting 4,000 TVET students whereby at least 50 percent of them have to be female students.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the gap is not so big, we continue to encourage female students to join technical training. Technical education is the future of the world; we cannot afford to leave our sisters behind in this technological transformation. They have big potential,\u201d he told The New Times.<\/p>\n

Official figures by RTB show that there are 56,722 female and 64,540 male students in TVET schools across the country.<\/p>\n

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