Apple Supports Malala Fund Expansion in Latin America
July 13 2018 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Collaboration Includes App Development Challenge With Apple
Developer Academies in Brazil to Expand Girls’ Education
Apple® today launched a new collaboration between its 10 Apple
Developer Academies in Brazil and Malala Fund to advance girls'
education opportunities. As part of its new expansion into Latin
America, Malala Fund, which works to provide safe, quality
secondary education and opportunities for girls, has also offered
grants to local advocates in Brazil. The advocates join Malala
Fund's network of Gulmakai champions and will implement projects
across the country designed to empower girls, teachers and
policymakers through skills development, school enrollment efforts
and education advocacy.
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Malala Yousafzai visits the Apple
Developer Academy in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, meeting with
students who are learning to build apps. (Photo: Business Wire)
The challenge will harness the creativity and ingenuity of Apple
Developer Academy students and alumni in Brazil, giving them the
opportunity to work with Malala Fund to design and develop apps
that enhance education opportunities for girls. The challenge will
also encourage students to find ways to better enable Malala Fund’s
network of Gulmakai champions around the world to communicate and
share best practices in a secure environment.
The young developers at the Apple Developer Academy in Rio met
Malala Yousafzai on Friday when she visited the students and
explained the important role the developers will play in supporting
the fund’s mission to provide education opportunities to girls
across the globe.
“My hope is that every girl, from Rio to Riyadh, can be free to
choose her own future,” said Malala Yousafzai. “Whether she wants
to be a developer, a pilot, a dancer or a politician, education is
the best path to a brighter future. By tapping into Apple’s network
of student developers, Malala Fund will gain access to new tools to
support our mission of free, safe, quality education. The students
in Apple’s Developer Academy program share my passion for improving
the world around us, and I am eager to see their innovative ideas
to help girls in Brazil and across the globe.”
“We share Malala’s goal of getting more girls into quality
education and are thrilled to be deepening our partnership with
Malala Fund by mobilizing thousands of Apple Developer Academy
students and alumni across Brazil,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
“Apple has been committed to education since day one, and we can’t
wait to see what our creative student developers come up with to
help Malala Fund make a difference for girls around the world.”
“The students in the Apple Developer Academy program are
passionate about using their skills to support their communities,
and this challenge gives them the opportunity to make a real
difference in the world,” said Beatriz Magalhães, a former Apple
Developer Academy student who is now a design teacher with the
program. “Within minutes of the announcement, students were already
brainstorming creative ways to address this global challenge."
In January, Apple became Malala Fund’s first Laureate partner,
enabling the organization to double the number of grants awarded by
its Gulmakai Network and fund new programs in Latin America and
India, with the initial goal of extending secondary education
opportunities to more than 100,000 girls.
Since 2013, more than 3,000 students have gone through the Apple
Developer Academy program in Brazil, with another 500 currently
enrolled in 10 sites located in Brasilia, Campinas, Curitiba,
Fortaleza, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São
Paulo. Seventy-five students from Brazil attended this year’s
Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California, as
scholarship winners.
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