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Co-founders Rebecca Thomson and Rachita Saraogi discuss how their design-led workshops can build girls’ confidence and prompt industry change.
Rachita Saraogi and Rebecca Thomson are the founders of Sisterhood, a creative social action programme for teenage girls, and one of three SMEs to win a TV advertisement worth over £150,000. They explain how they’re seeking to minimise the negative effect of the pandemic on access to creative educational and vocational opportunities for girls.
“A new project is empowering young girls from all different cultures by helping them to redefine what beauty means today. We Recognise, a digital platform by community group Sisterhood, aims to use the power of storytelling to rewrite traditional beauty narratives, and allow teenagers to focus on who they are and what they can achieve, rather than how they look. Amen to that.”
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“If you’ve been learning to code in the lockdown then it’s time to put those skills to the test. The Institute of Coding has partnered with social inclusion enterprise Sisterhood to host a free virtual workshop for young women on May 30.
The focus on the ‘create-a-thon’ as they call it is to inspire young women to use their passion for tech for social good. The virtual event will bring together people across the country to identify a social issue or problem they care about and use tech skills, such as AI and coding, to show how tech could help solve it.”
