Marvella Odili Wins World of Difference Award

Marvella Odili, Founder/CEO of Save Our Needy was recently awarded the "World of Difference" Award by The International Alliance of Women (TIAW) in faraway Australia in recognition of her outstanding contribution in making "all the difference in the world" to the economic empowerment of women.

Marvella Odili

Marvella is a social innovator, humanitarian and Champion of women and girls' rights who has contributed to the economic empowerment of more than 4,000 marginalized women leading to the realization of their financial independence both in Nigeria and Benin since 2011. Big congrats to her!!!

5 Nigerian Girls Break Record In Technology

Five teenage girls from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha, Anambra State in Nigeria were crowned world champions at the World Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, United States, last night. The girls beat teams from USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold medal.

The girls namely Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye are reported to be attracting a lot of attention in the world's greatest technological hub.

The Nigerian team at the event

The team representing Nigeria won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.

Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Golden Girls spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2,000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.

Technovation is a programme that offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the programming skills they need to emerge as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders.

Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems.

115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12 teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in Silicon Valley.

The girls will also be attending field trips, life-changing workshops including a networking session during their one week stay in America.

Marvella Odili Wins Systers Pass-It-On Award

Marvella Odili, Founder/CEO of Save Our Needy recently became a recipient of the Systers Pass-It-On award for her project entitled Tech Girls. The award is an initiative of Anita Borg organization (AnitaB.org) which encourages and supports women in technology.

Tech Girls project is designed to empower disadvantaged and marginalized girls with ICT and digital skills. Participants of this program will also benefit from career counseling from leading Nigerian women in technology.

Read more about her project here: 

https://anitab.org/profiles/pio-award-recipients/marvella-o/