Closing the Gender gap in STEM across Africa
Join an award-winning alternative school where you learn by doing and get the right support to imagine new futures in STEM.
Research
We generate evidence-driven insights that inform solutions and policies, ensuring women and girls are at the center of Africa’s development.
Advocacy
We champion inclusive policies, amplify women’s voices, and work with partners to create lasting change across communities and nations.
Intergenerational Mentorship
We connect young women with visionary leaders who guide, inspire, and equip them to thrive in their personal and professional journeys.
STEM Education
We provide hands-on learning and exposure in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to spark curiosity and innovation.
Emerging Futures
We equip young women with foresight skills to anticipate challenges, imagine possibilities, and design bold, sustainable futures for Africa.
About sheSOLVES Africa
SheSOLVES Africa is an organisation nurturing the next generation of women who will solve the most pressing present and future challenges on the continent. Our transformative projects are guided by 5 pillars; Research, Advocacy, Intergenerational Mentorship, STEM Education (Experiential) and Emerging Futures.
What drives us?
Mission
Raising the next generation of innovative women leaders who will leverage STEM and Foresight to promote prosperity in Africa.
Vision
A continent where the agency, creative confidence and global competence of adolescent girls and young women is both harnessed and amplified equally as men.
Core values
- Curiosity
- Innovation
- Love
- Impact
- Agency
Impact in numbers...
Key milestones
A couple of defining moments
- Winning First Runner-up in the Story Map Category for leveraging GIS Tools innovatively in telling a captivating geo-based story on our effort collecting plastic waste and securing data on location points of consumers.
- Winning the Innovation/Product/Prototype Category at Geo-Hackathon for collecting 7000+ units of plastic waste and converting them to paving stones.
- Selected as a Next Generation of Foresight Practitioners by the School of International Futures (SOIF) and receiving $1000 to scale STEMFutures Design Challenge.
- Invitation by the Association of Professional Futurists to publish in Compass magazine,
- Hosting Africa’s first female professor of Computer Science for an Intergenerational Dialogue, with girls in close proximity.
- Receiving £1000 from the Isaac Fund by Bezaleel Collective and NIYO Group towards the STEMFutures Project.
- Launching the STEMFutures Bazaar in a hybrid format with quality ideas from participants (including a pandemic prediction laboratory, a self-sustaining STEM laboratory, a 3-in-1 convertible car, etc)
- SOLVERs from our community speaking in a global STEM foresight event and earning their first paid speaking engagement.
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Research
Research Consultation & Design Jam
STEMFutures Design Jam in Wasinmi, a rural farming community, in Osun State using a relatable narrative titled “A Day in the Life of Sandra, the Solar Innovator.” We engaged girls, teachers and parents in a Futures Wheel exercise, exploring desirable and undesirable plausibilities of an fictional girl in that community with similar lived experiences like the participants. The exercise revealed the interconnectedness of systemic issues such as energy access, crop preservation and gender equity in STEM education.
Outcomes of this research consultation informed our continuous group-mentorship support to the students and teachers.
Advocacy
Knowledge Sharing & Policy Engagement
In addition to our research efforts, SheSOLVES Africa actively engages ecosystem decision-makers, educators, and policymakers in knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure our insights inform gender-based development approaches. Our advocacy spans media, professional networks, and direct stakeholder engagement.
Mentorship
Dialogue Across Generations
“If she can see bigger, she can dream bigger and achieve bigger.”
SheSOLVES Africa organises intergenerational mentorship and dialogue sessions to give adolescent girls and young women the opportunity to engage with, learn from, and be inspired by experienced professionals in STEM across different generations.
Year: 2024
Number of Girls Reached: 70
Location: Yaba, Lagos State, Nigeria
Participant Age Range: 11 – 50 years
Guests: Agronomist, Foresight Practitioners, Information Connectivity Network Practitioner, GM Technical – Information Connectivity Solutions Limited, Biology Teacher, and STEM undergraduates from the University of Lagos.
STEM Education
Experiential Learning for Real-World Impact
At the core of every other pillar of our work is STEM Education. We engage adolescent girls and young women interested in pursuing STEM careers through experiential learning that is inquiry-based, project-driven, and problem-oriented.
Participants are guided to explore the real-world applications of classroom science concepts, enabling them to design solutions to pressing challenges in their communities and beyond. This approach not only builds technical competence but also nurtures creative confidence, innovation, and leadership skills.
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Our Team
Beautiful humans making things possible at sheSOLVES
Abigael Anaza-mark
Quality Education & Futurist Practitioner
Kathleen
Support Staff
Faith
Support Staff
Our Partners
Brands that have trusted us so far
£1,000
Bezaleel Collective Isaac Fund 2024
$1,000
School of International Futures Fund 2023
$150
The GirlForce Movement 2024
$150
GISKonsult GeoHackathon 2019