Stories From Erbil

Awjalan Fatimi;

An Enthusiast Junior Ninja!

Meet Awjalan; A student in Basic IT class. and a member in the Programming Club. Awjalan means A strong mountain and this Guy prove to be strong with his big ideas and thoughts. He proved himself in his class and attended the Programming club sessions and never missed any session. 

Awjalan Finished High school with an Avg: 67.5 and his ambition is to study in a computer-related major. He said, "I knew how to use a computer but I enrolled in this course to  improve my skills with Ms. Sandra and Ms. Eman, and most importantly improve my English with Mr. Issa"

Awjalan, A Basic IT Student & Member in the Programming Club 

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 A journey from London to Middle East.

Her name is Zahra, she was Born in London 1991, and raised in east London with multicultural and different background community. She studied English literature and government politics and law, and then majored in English and drama, and got her master in international relations. She worked as a freelancer for some time and then got her ticket to travel to Gaza to work as community engagement manager! Zahra said "My parents went crazy, they didn’t accept traveling to Gaza but then they accept it as I traveled to Gaza" Zahra said that she acquired a lot of information about the culture and the nature of life and people in Gaza that all the information she got from there applied it when she moved to Erbil to work as a program manager in Re:Coded. "I'm more with implementing more than reading, I can take the research and then implement it, and that's why I'm here to (implement) and build the tech community in Erbil and Middle East"

zahra at the tech summit in paris on behalf of Re:Coded

Zahra believes that in order to have a better education system the schools needs to update their curriculum and adopt the change instead of refusing it. "Currently the schools in UK and Europe have coding classes for children to fill the gap of jobs in the future"

women in tech event, organized by Re:Coded

Zahra currently based in Erbil, trying to help the fellows of Re:Coded bootcamp and organizing several workshops and events in Kurdistan. zahra said "The graduate fellows of the bootcamp now has a message to deliver to their community, each fellow must affect his circle of friends and family, and that's how a tech community will be built eventually" 

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