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CNN Hero Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin 03:09
Disadvantaged girls change their communities by learning to code
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko—known as the world's largest "floating slum"—built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.
Rickety shacks stand on stilts in the polluted water. Canoes are required transportation through the maze of narrow canals. Okpoe's father is a fisherman, and her mother sells smoked fish, eking out a living on the fringes of Africa's largest city.
Lagos has a thriving economy built on oil, finance, and manufacturing. And the city is now considered Nigeria's Silicon Valley, with Facebook and Google opening offices there earlier this year.
Yet it's estimated that as many as two-thirds of the city's 21 million residents live in slums that lack reliable electricity, clean water, and sanitation.
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"TINN/TEAM Internet-Net Neutrality BROADBAND Initiative is taking a page from Sharon Okpoe and CNN Hero Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin to anchor the seriousness of urban and rural Underserved Users in TINN Country, said Mary Glass, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC.
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