Apple today launched among its 10 Apple Developer Academies in Brazil and the Malala Fund to improve educational opportunities for girls. Within the framework of your new expansion in Latin AmericaThe Malala Fund, which works to provide girls with opportunities and safe and quality secondary education, has also offered scholarships to their local advocates in Brazil.
Defenders or collaborators join the Malala Fund's Gulmakai network of specialists and they will launch projects across the country designed to strengthen the autonomy of girls, teachers and legislators, through skills development, schooling initiatives and acting in defense of education.
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The challenge will draw on the creativity and ingenuity of students and alumni of the Apple Developer Academies in Brazil, giving them the opportunity to work with the Malala Fund to design and develop apps that improve educational opportunities for girls. It will also encourage students to find ways to help the Malala Fund's network of Gulmakai specialists around the world to communicate and share best practices in a safe environment. Apple Developer Academy students develop apps to solve challenges that affect their communities.
The young developers of the Apple Developer Academy in Rio met last Friday with Malala Yousafzai, and on this visit they were explained the key role developers play in supporting the fund's mission, which is basically to provide educational opportunities to girls around the world. Malala Yousafzai said in statements with some media:
I hope that all girls, from Rio to Riyadh, will be free to choose their own future. Whether you want to be developers, pilots, dancers or politicians, education is the best way to a more positive future. Through Apple's student development network, the Malala Fund will be able to access new tools to support our mission of free, safe and quality education. The students of Apple's Developer Academy program share my passion for improving the world around us, and I'm looking forward to seeing their innovative ideas to help girls in Brazil and around the world.
In January, Apple became the first honorary partner of the Malala Fund, allowing the organization to double the number of scholarships awarded by its Gulmakai Network and to bring its funding programs to India and Latin America with the initial goal of offering options secondary education to more than 100.000 girls. Since 2013, more than 3.000 students have passed through the Apple Developer Academy program in Brazil, and there are currently 500 registered in 10 delegations in Brasilia, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. 75 students from Brazil have attended this year the World Conference for Developers in San José (California) as scholarship holders.
