School girls build life-saving apps

Students from Lions High School presenting one of the Apps they are developing during the Women Tech-makers celebrations in Kisumu. [PHOTO:MAUREEN ODIWUOR/STANDARD]

A group of school girls in Kisumu County are developing applications (apps) that will make it easier to disseminate vital information on health and other important social issues.

Drawn from Arya Primary, Lions High School and Kisumu Girls, the girls are currently at different stages of coding - a process that makes it possible to create computer software, apps and websites. They are working under a project dubbed Women Tech-Makers (WTM), courtesy of Google Developer Groups (GDG).