Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General, World Trade Organization
LeadershipThe first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization.
She Learns Tech · Sierra Leone
Women are rewriting
Sierra Leone's tech story.
A free movement to close the gender gap in technology. Learn real skills with a cohort, get mentored by women who have built companies and infrastructure across Africa, and step into your first role.
Free
always, no tuition
12
trailblazers featured
4
leading in AI
Cohort one
Numbers we can stand behind
Straight from our first cohort's records. Women were only about a quarter of that cohort. She Learns Tech exists to change exactly that.
400+
learners in cohort one
92%
finished the course
100+
of them were women
Your path
From first day to first role
Four steps, all free. Each one is a real place on the platform you can start today.
1
Apply in minutes
Create a free account and tell us where you are starting from. No prior tech experience is needed.
Create your account2
Learn with a cohort
Join free digital skills training with a women only study circle that keeps you moving and motivated.
See the courses3
Get mentored
Get paired with women leaders in tech across Africa who guide your projects and your career choices.
Meet the community4
Land the role
Build a real portfolio, then get priority access to women friendly jobs, internships, and scholarships.
Browse opportunitiesWomen in the field
Africa's women are building the future
Not quotes on a poster. Real founders, engineers, and researchers, and the things they actually built, in AI, connectivity, health, and beyond.
Timnit Gebru
Founder, Distributed AI Research Institute
AI & Data“There's a real danger of systematizing our societal discrimination.”
Founded a research institute that puts ethics and accountability at the centre of AI.
Joy Buolamwini
Founder, Algorithmic Justice League
AI & Data“If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about AI.”
Her research exposed racial and gender bias in facial recognition used around the world.
Rediet Abebe
Computer scientist and co-founder, Black in AI
AI & Data“You get the research and the personal and the advocacy and the political. I don't really separate it out.”
Designs algorithms that tackle inequality, and helped build a global community for Black AI researchers.
Charlette N'Guessan
Co-founder, BACE Group
AI & DataThe first woman to win the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, for AI identity verification.
Funke Opeke
Founder, MainOne
Infrastructure“In Nigeria there was no Internet and no infrastructure. So we decided to put the pieces together and make this happen.”
Built the first privately owned subsea cable to bring fast internet to West Africa.
Juliana Rotich
Co-founder, Ushahidi and BRCK
Connectivity“Investment in technology, people and creative networks can help us to make sure that Africa's next vanguard is something that we are part of.”
Built crisis mapping software and rugged internet hardware now used across the world.
Regina Honu
Founder, Soronko Academy
EdTechOpened West Africa's first coding school for girls and has trained thousands of young women.
Temie Giwa-Tubosun
Founder, LifeBank
HealthTech“I started LifeBank because I wanted a world where women no longer died from preventable causes.”
Uses technology and logistics to move blood and oxygen to the hospitals that need it most.
Rebecca Enonchong
Founder, AppsTech
Community“If a black African woman could succeed in America in 1999, then all the entrepreneurs across the world can succeed.”
Builds enterprise software for clients worldwide and is a leading voice for African founders.
Ethel Cofie
Founder, Women in Tech Africa
CommunityLeads one of Africa's largest networks of women working in technology.
Rapelang Rabana
Founder, Rekindle Learning
EdTechBuilds mobile learning tools that help people keep their skills sharp at work.
Watch and learn
Hear it from the women doing it
Talks and founder stories from African women building companies, infrastructure, and movements. Press play and watch right here.
Closer to home
Stories from our own graduates
Real Sierra Leonean women who trained with Teki-SL, in their own words, and the career moves they made.
Data AnalyticsCohort 1
“Teki-SL taught me that my background does not define my future. The data analytics cohort gave me the skills and the confidence to compete for roles I never thought were possible.”
Unemployed graduate
Junior Data Analyst, UNICEF Sierra Leone
Aminata Sesay
Web DevelopmentCohort 1
“I went from selling goods at the market to building websites for clients around the world. She Learns Tech showed me that women can do anything in technology.”
Mariama Bangura
Market trader Frontend Developer, remote
CloudCohort 1
“The mentorship from women in tech across Africa inspired me to aim higher. I applied for roles I would never have considered before joining Teki-SL.”
Fatmata Koroma
University student Cloud Engineering Intern
Our mission
Closing the gender gap in tech,
one woman at a time
In Sierra Leone, women are still far outnumbered in technology. She Learns Tech exists to change that, with free, world class digital skills training designed for women.
We pair that training with mentorship from women who have built real companies across Africa, so learning to code comes with a network that lifts you up.
What you get with She Learns Tech
- Free tuition for every digital skills cohort
- Women only study circles and peer support
- Mentorship from African women leaders in tech
- Priority access to women friendly job openings
- A real portfolio built on real client projects
- Career guidance and placement support