By Carlos Escalante | Communications Officer
Dear friends,
Thank you for supporting us throughout 2020. We are glad to share that we have been able to reach 52 Venezuelan migrants through our POETA Centers across the region. In this opportunity, we want to share the story of Karen, a young, hardworking, and resilient Venezuelan immigrant. Due to the hardships in Venezuela, Karen moved with her mom to Cerete, Cordoba Colombia four years ago in the search of new opportunities.
Karen considers herself a citizen of the world. She is enthusiastic and passionate when it comes to creating opportunities for the future, despite social stereotypes. In light of this, she joined POETA Youth Spark at the Marie Poussepin Social Center in UPB Monteria, to take classes in computer science. At the POETA center, she learned how to program in blocks, computer language programs, robotics, and electronics. Thanks to all of the knowledge acquired during her training at the POETA YouthSpark center and feeling empowered through technology, she decided to apply for a software engineer career at the University of Cartagena.
Karen wants to inspire young girls to keep an open mind when it comes to technology and incentivizes them to search for opportunities in the STEM field. In the future, Karen sees herself opening her own company or joining a big multinational like Microsoft. Karen wants to keep working hard "so that other girls in the world know that we have the capacity to do whatever we want: digital design, develop software, and create robots"- Karen.
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