LESOTHO (Commonwealth Union) – There has always been a gap in the education system where the tech talent has been a shortage. This makes it hard for the industry to grow.
Now individual countries that have the ways and means to adapt and spend budgets educating the tech talent that they see in their education system do so. However, one tends to forget that there are countries who can’t afford to do this. This is where countries that can afford to, along with universities and other educational organizations, provide scholarships and other methods of funding for students to come and improve their tech talent and be more productive in moving the industry forward.
We now come to know about Mamonaheng Koenane, who was born and raised in a small mountain village in Lesotho. Although she grew up in a land locked country her parents made sure she received the best possible education she could receive. She stated that she had met many children from different backgrounds and hearing their stories of the countries they came from her love to travel was born.
Koenane was accepted to the Royal School Wolverhampton in England but her parents had told her that whilst they were very proud of her achievements there was no way for them to afford the fee for that school. Fortunately, there were other avenues for her to explore and funding and scholarship options. Koenane had looked into every possible option to help her reach all her goals. To make it in the tech education world and to be able to bring that back to her home country.
“I was only able to see the life I dreamed of on television and by chance I stumbled on a book my uncle had picked up on the streets. The book contained a list of different schools in Europe and without my parents’ awareness I started applying by post to the schools,” she said.
Although she had to give up her dream school, she still managed to study computer science at the Griffith Collage in Dublin, Ireland and from there she was given a full scholarship to do a bootcamp in computer science in the Austin Coding Academy in Texas.
