Staff Writer
TELECOMMS giant, TelOne, has intensified its girl child empowerment drive, amid indications its technical academy’s female student registrants are on the rise.
Speaking on the sidelines of the International Girls in ICT commemorations in Gweru, TelOne‘s Corporate Affairs Head Melody Harry said the telecomms company was deliberate about its interventions to promote girl child participation in the telecommunications sector.
“At TelOne what we have been trying to do is we have got a programme structured to ensure that we reach out to the girls in the most difficult circumstances or who are in far to reach areas to ensure that career opportunities in the tech space trickle down,” she said.
Harry pointed out that through the TelOne Centre for Learning, that specialises in offerings telecomms and other ICT-related professions and training, TelOne was facilitating for the enrollment of more girls.
“We are pleased that in this current intake, we recorded a 20 percent jump in female registrants. We also have a mentorship programme, through which we have attached at least 200 girls across the country to lady leaders in TelOne, especially our engineers. They are working with the girls to expose them and pursue opportunities in technologies,” Harry said.
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