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Web design skills pull girls out of poverty

By Michael Chepkwony | Oct. 25, 2018
Latifa Noor freelance website developer based in Mombasa during past Digital Opportunity Trust conference [David ] Njaaga,Standard]

Sometime in June 2016, six young female university students visited Hassan Joho Girls Secondary School in Utange, Mombasa County, to give a talk.

Latifa Noor, who was then counting days to her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams, says the visit changed her life and gave her hope for the future.

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