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Groundbreaker Talents: Tech Opportunities in Uganda
Alain joins hosts BobWP and Birgit Olzem as a Groundbreaker Talents mentor — alongside co-founder Leoni Rossberg and graduate Claire Nakamatte — to talk through the nonprofit's twelve-month residential programme training young women in Uganda as software engineers, and the hiring outcomes that follow.
Groundbreaker runs an intensive, residential year of software-engineering training for young women across Sub-Saharan Africa, pairing technical instruction with weekly mentorship and job placement. The conversation covers what mentoring actually involves, the infrastructure hurdles of running the programme on the ground, and the sponsorship model funding each participant’s path into the tech industry.