The EmpowerHer Community is a tech based community focused on training and promoting women in the field of Information technology. We aim to spread more awareness as opportunities in information Technology and incorporate as many women as possible. The idea of the community was conceived by the founders of Midtown Tech Hub and a program aimed to promote women was held at the hub. The community was officially launched on May 5, 2021, with volunteers dedicated to grow the community. We are a groiwng community of over 200 members and 16 volunteers at the background, ensuring smooth operations.

Our Goals

As a community that is centered around empowering women, some of our goals include

Challenge and Connect

The empowerHer community wll help women by challenging them with assignments that require them to learn and practice new skills while simultaneously connecting them with mentors who will provide them with feedback and support.

Build a more inclusive culture

We aim to push aside unconscious bias about the capabilities of the girl child by persuading the review and update in diversity and inclusion initiatives to ensure appropriate attention is given to equity

Invest

We are prepared to invest in the girl child by offering formalized leadership development opportunities for women leaders focused on building the leadership competencies needed to thrive in the tech space

Meet The Founder

Elizabeth Okaome is the founder of the Empower Her Community.
The gradaute of Microbiology from the University of Benin not only possesses beauty and brains she also wields a human's greatest weapons, ambition, morals and vision.

"It took me a while to get here, but after discovering the major gap between men and women in the field of technology i knew i had to do my part. I had the idea of creating a community like this, while in my second year at the University of Benin where women don't have to worry about being themselves.
When i am around some people, they're often surprised that i am three things, young, a CEO and not a man".