How I partnered with an Afghan NGO to grow women engineers
gitstart.comThat's an intense story! Pragmatic engineer has a great article on where to find technical mentors, such as Coding Coach, Mentoring Club, Mentors in Tech. Would be curious to get people who used them.
Link to the whole article: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-othe...
Thanks! Huge fan of Pragmatic Engineer's blog post. There are plenty of paid mentorship programs listed, which is totally different from what we are looking for as we're trying to build a mentorship program that's free for our developers (and ofc we will pay the mentors). But paid mentorship with exclusivity is not reaaally what we're looking for as they're structured very differently.
The free ones seems cool, gonna check them out and probably reach out to folks there.
We're launching a mentorship program for our developers at GitStart with mentors from outside our community.
If you have experience building such programs, know excellent mentoring platforms, or would like to be a mentor yourself, I’d love to hear from you at: tania+mentorship@gitstart.com or reply below
Oh well.. Another shiny example of completely failing to understand why after +20 years of liberal/progressive occupation got completely reverted in a couple of weeks.
Nevertheless, a truly fantastic for initiative for winning virtue signaling points and NGO employment for the next years. Keep up the good work! +1
What a great way to 'inspire' not just the women in Afghanistan, but women everywhere that are finding ways to break into tech!
Imo the typical “women in tech” issues only really applies to US (and maybe some other typical western countries). It’s really different elsewhere, case in point in Afghanistan.
Hope that the small things we’re doing at GitStart can break down the barriers of language, merit, class, culture, and political situation and let anyone who wants to learn coding can learn, and those who want to make money from it can!
happy that this exists.