Wentors partners with Dell Technologies to empower women in technology.
Dell Technologies is passionate about using technology to improve people’s lives. Dell Technologies, which is at the forefront of transforming people’s lives with extraordinary capabilities, is advancing sustainability, cultivating inclusion, transforming lives, and upholding ethics and privacy in everything she does. Her workforce values and celebrates diverse backgrounds, resulting in solutions that harness and amplify technology in the most meaningful ways believing in the power of technology to help solve complex societal challenges, from healthcare to education to a digital economy.
To mark International Women’s Day 2022, Dell Technologies teamed up with Wentors—a global organization focused on increasing the rate of participation and retention of women in technology—to empower women in technology.
In the last 18 months, Wentors has impacted more than 2300 women in technology across an average of 40,000 hours of mentorship and is determined to provide mentorship opportunities for even more women across the African continent and other regions of the world.
With a growing number of over 3700 community members across 4 continents of the world, Wentors is fast becoming the go-to organization for women mentorship and personal development.
To mark International Women’s Day, 2022, Wentors has launched another edition of the We-Discover mentorship program for women in technology with a focus to empower women on the African continent. This particular edition is proudly sponsored by Dell Technologies.
Wentors is making a concerted effort to empower women to seek out better opportunities in the industry. Women at Dell Technologies, Safaricom PLC, Microsoft, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, The National Bank of Kenya, IBM, Deutsche Telekom IT RUS, Digital Transformation and Digital First BOB ICS, MTN, and other leading C-level female mentors and startup founders from around the world are among her ranks.
She also hosted a webinar facilitated by Reputation management and personal branding expert Lida Citroen to train women on how to leverage personal branding to break popular biases as women in technology as part of her commitment to breaking the biases and stereotypes associated with women the industry.
In a world recovering from a global pandemic, the organization led by former Microsoft colleagues EduAbasi Chukwunweike and Unoma Adeyemi is redefining access to mentorship for women in technology.
Unoma Adeyemi, Co-Founder and COO of Wentors, stated:
“Our programs are changing people’s lives.” We are creating a world in which that young girl out there can be encouraged to aspire to and succeed in a role in the technology industry. That is the world we wish to create, and it is for this reason that our programs exist.
Wentors has established partnerships with African tech organizations such as Pwaniteknogalz, TechOps, CTN Tech Ghana, Afro Tech Girls, CIO, Hernovation, Ennovate Lab, She Code Africa, Akirachix, SheHacks Kenya, GDSC Mount Kenya and Technical University of Kenya, Africa Agility, and others since its inception in 2020. Outside of Africa, she has collaborated with organizations such as George Women in Stem, Women in Digital Switzerland, Latina Geeks, Women in Machine Learning Data Science, ThisAbility, H4K-IT, Girl Develop It, and others.
These collaborations have been critical in the drive toward the vision of mentoring 8 million women in technology by 2030, despite the fact that the company is still bootstrapped by its co-founders.
