By Nhasala Joshi | Co-founder
Women Leaders in Technology (WLiT) completed the WLiT Fellowship Pokhara 2024-25, our annual flagship program in Pokhara, Gandaki Province. The program specifically designed and implemented for the region, with the objective to bring more young women into tech, help them attain leadership positions in personal and professional endeavors, and use that knowledge and influence to ensure the technology sector is gender inclusive, equitable, and used for positive causes.
15 young female tech students were selected for this 2nd cohort of fellowship in Kaski,through an open call, application and interviews. The selection process engaged WLiT Alumni from previous fellowship in Pokhara.
During the 2 weeks bootcamp, they were trained on leadership skills alongside technical training, at the end of which they built a product prototype solving an issue close to them in the form of a website/app. Over the next 7 months, they received mentorship with program alumni or a tech professional. Many kickstarted their tech career with an internship/traineeship at a partner company, and each led a School Activity Program introducing coding and internet safety to 484 young public school students, of whom 259 were boys and 225 were girls, and showing them scope of tech careers. During this entire fellowship, many of the alumni from previous fellowship from the region got engaged and at times led parts of the program, facilitated sessions.
This second cohort graduated in 24th May, 2025. After the fellowship completion, some have joined in as volunteers for the next cohort that started on May 2025.
The alumni of the program go on to become part of the larger community also engaging in conversations such as gender equality in tech, feminist technology and inclusive workplace, etc. They even join WLiT as the mentors, facilitators, curriculum developers, etc in a few years of being in the community. The collective cadre of young women in tech thus create more space for upcoming women in technology and advocate for feminist technological principles
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