Making a difference in the lives of female students in Africa. The Joule Foundation is in the business of changing and shaping lives. The work we do at our organization is aimed at giving female students a chance to dream and achieve beyond what they thought was possible. There are numerous factors that affect the secondary school retention rates of the African girl such as economic, social and cultural factors. It is our goal that a student with academic aptitude should not be held back in attaining an education and an eventual career due to these limitations. Current research has found that in educating a girl, once she has a career and a family of her own, she is more likely to encourage higher education for all her children.
Did you know…
- Young women represent 7 to 12 % of engineering students in Africa
- Girls account for a greater percentage of school drop outs worldwide
- Sub- Saharan Africa accounts for 50% of the world’s out of school children that are likely never to return to school
- Africa accounts for less than 10% of the world’s internet users with nearly 45% fewer women than men having access the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Joule Foundation was formed with a purpose of giving back and encouraging young women in the African continent to pursue an education in the field of STEM. Our academic workshops and programs are designed to address the problems closest to home by pairing learnings from the classroom with hands-on-activities, mentoring, interpersonal skills and career awareness programs for secondary school girls. Why call it the Joule Foundation? The “Joule” is defined as the SI unit of energy. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but it can be transformed from one form to another.
