Apps for Girls – Opening of 2nd CDI Community
Posted by admin on September 6th, 2010
We are very pleased to announce our second CDI Community Partner:
Central Foundation Girls’ School (CFGS) in Tower Hamlets, East London
Central Foundation Girls’ School is a large, oversubscribed and inclusive inner-city girls’ school in Bow, London with 1,400 students age 11-18, 72% of which are Bangladeshi with 75% Muslim and 60% with a home language other than English. Already a Performing Arts Specialist School, it has now developed a second specialism called “Voice” which focuses on communication, empowerment and democracy through the subject areas of English and Citizenship. It aims to educate tomorrow’s women by promoting their development as leaders, champions of environmental sustainability and active citizens.
More than 40 girls applied for a place on the Apps for Good course, but only 20 of them will be able to attend the course, where some of the former Apps for Good students will now be working as educators.
The lessons will take place twice a week as part of the Central+ programme. Central+ is an activity project for after school hours developed by CFGS, which offers the girls the opportunity to follow different activities such as learning street dance, joining a cinema club or going horse riding, among others.
Ben Cole, Head of Community at CFGS told us: “All the girls who applied for the course want to achieve something and they see this programme as a real opportunity for them. They see themselves as privileged kids because they are getting an education and Apps for Good has given them the chance to put their passion for technologies to the service of the community in a practical way by developing apps that will solve specific problems around them.”
If you want to celebrate the launch of our second community with us you can register here: appsforgirls.eventbrite.com
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