This year the Shilpa Sayura Foundation of Sri Lanka has been awarded for its NextGen Girls in Technology project, which helps young women in high school and university to improve their analytical, logical and creative thinking through technology.
Girl Child Network, Kenya, is also recognized for its project, Our Right to Learn – Reaching the Unreached, which provides access to quality primary education for vulnerable children, including girls who have been prevented from accessing or completing primary education.
For the past five years, Professor Gloria Bonder, coordinator of the UNESCO Chair for Women, Science and Technology in Latin America, had the honor of being a member of the evaluation committee for this program, along with a group of experts appointed by the Director-General of UNESCO and composed of Hayat Sindi, Yuchi Zhao, Aicha Diallo, Ahmad Shawesh, Maxime Forest, and Zheping Xie.
To celebrate this occasion, UNESCO has prepared materials accessible at this link, including information for the press, videos, and graphic documents.