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Nelly Cheboi: She gave up US dream to teach villagers IT

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By Yvonne Chepkwony
| 3 years ago | 4 Min read

Nelly Cheboi 29, at Zawadi Academy in Mogotio, Baringo County on August 31, 2022. She resigned from a job in the USA and relocated to her village to fight poverty using Technology. [Harun Wathari Standard]

Nelly Cheboi, 29, lived the American dream. Born in a poor family in Mogotio, Baringo County, her fortunes changed when she secured a scholarship through Zawadi Africa to study computer science at Augustana College in Illinois, United States, graduating in 2015.

Thereafter, Cheboi worked as a business analyst and lead software engineer for two US firms - New World Van Lines and User-Hero.

But she left all that behind and came back to her village in 2019 with the sole aim of empowering her community borrowing from her experiences in the US.