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In Zambia, 3,600 girls have learned to code through an innovative project designed by Peace Corps volunteers. The project, known as Girls Can Code!, teaches adolescent girls from rural and disadvantaged communities to code by harnessing the power of Raspberry Pi, a low-powered computer designed by a former Cambridge University professor.

“Much is lacking in terms of resources in these rural areas, which are typically off-grid, with no electricity and no network,” said Peace Corps volunteer and Girls Can Code! founder Daniel Bevington, of Lyons, Colorado. “It is a male-dominated culture where girls and young women in rural Zambia find limited roles in society. For many of them, this is the first time in their life where someone believed in them.”

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