Nelly Cheboi, 29, achieved remarkable achievement as a result of her perseverance and commitment to lifting her family out of poverty. Cheboi has worked her way up from a little town in Mogotio, Baringo County, to become the Director of her firm, TechLit Africa.
Out of Poverty There’s a Superwoman
It is a remote village in Mogotio, where she was born and raised. Cheboi and her younger sister were raised by a single mother and struggled to make ends meet.
“I came from a low-income family. I grew up in a house that had been despised for a long time. On wet days, the roof would leak, and on windy days, it would blow away. There were no sanitary facilities, and we would sometimes spend days without eating.”
“My loving mother worked diligently to educate my sisters and me as I grew up. She had a variety of side enterprises, including selling goats and vegetables. She worked hard every day for as long as I can remember, yet our lives never altered “she claimed before.
Cheboi made education her silver lining. Her hard work in school earned her a scholarship to study Computer Science at Augustana College in Illinois, USA.
“When I arrived at Augustana and applied for their work-study program, things began to shift. I was able to provide for my family by finding them a nicer home. The pinnacle of my experience came when I chose to establish a school for my older sister, who has a certificate in elementary teaching, to provide a source of income for my family.”
Brilliant Idea Sandwiched by Dreams
What was once a distant dream for Cheboi has now become a reality.
She recycles technological equipment from the United States of America (USA) to create a computer lab in Kenya through her firm.
Cheboi, according to her Forbes report, hires instructors and teaches them to manage community labs so that they are fully equipped to teach pupils living in run-down regions.
Students need to pay KES1,167 per month to have access to the laboratories.
Cheboi has more than 4,000 pupils and 20 professors, but only 10 contemporary computer labs. This equates to around KES4.6 million every month.
Never Think It’s too Big to Achieve
Cheboi stated that she intends to open 100 more labs across Africa to provide children with access to and training in digital literacy. What was once a distant dream for Cheboi has now become a reality.
Cheboi founded Techlit Africa shortly after establishing the institution. Her largest expenditure, she said, is bringing the discarded computer components into Kenya.
“We have programs in place to prepare children for the digital economy once they arrive in the nation. They may work remotely for IT corporations all around the world with these talents right from the village.”
Her goal, she said, is to provide rural Africans with the technological skills they need to generate money online.
Final Thoughts
It took just a few years for Cheboi to achieve such a big milestone but for Kenya, Connect took the past 20 years to empower students to become more confident, collaborative, and creative learners, as well as provide programs for teachers and parents at their partner public schools to better support students.
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