One million women
and girls who code.
iamtheCODE is the first African-led global movement built to put science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics and design in the hands of young women and girls in marginalised communities — and to keep them there.
A movement, not a programme.
The iamtheCODE Foundation exists to move governments, businesses, philanthropic foundations, investors and civil society to invest in one specific thing: the digital futures of women and girls who would otherwise be written off. It is a registered UK charity, and it works in direct implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The founding conviction is simple and stubborn — where a girl starts should never decide where she finishes. The work runs from refugee settlements to national ministries, and the measure of success is not attendance but outcomes: girls who can code, young women with real leadership, and jobs that actually exist.
Registered UK charity no. 1190134 — founded and led by Lady Mariéme Jamme.
Four pillars hold it up.
Everything iamtheCODE runs sits on the same four-part structure. Remove one and the model stops working.
People
The learners, the mentors, the volunteers and the teachers. Human capacity first — tools second.
Programs
Hackathons, clubs, mentoring and curriculum, all designed around real problems rather than abstract exercises.
Processes
A repeatable method that can be handed to a partner in any country and still produce the same result.
Platform
A digital learning platform that keeps the door open long after an event ends — badges, courses, progress.
STEAMD, not STEM.
The extra letters are deliberate. Art and design are treated as core engineering skills, because the problems these girls are asked to solve are human problems before they are technical ones.
Programmes and activities.
Hackathons
Public build events where teams take a UN Sustainable Development Goal and turn it into working code over a weekend.
Digital Clubs
Safe, ongoing spaces where girls keep learning STEAMD subjects after the event ends — the part that makes it stick.
Wellbeing Clubs
Peer support groups for vulnerable learners. Skills do not transfer to someone who is not safe or not well.
Mentoring Programme
Participants are paired with mentors from industry worldwide, for encouragement, direction and honest feedback.
E-courses & Platform
A digital learning platform with structured courses and earned badges, so progress is visible and portable.
12-Week Curriculum
A blended in-person and online course that takes a complete beginner through to building something real.
The Podcast
Long-form conversations about courage, failure and resilience, aimed squarely at young people deciding what is possible.
iamtheFOOD
Nutrition and meals for participants. A hungry learner does not learn — so the programme feeds them.
The SDGs
The seventeen UN Goals are the connective tissue running through every activity, not a badge on the website.
Built on the Global Goals.
iamtheCODE’s work maps directly onto the UN Sustainable Development Goals adopted by all member states in 2015. Five of the seventeen carry most of the weight — and every hackathon problem statement is drawn from them.
Principles everyone signs up to.
iamtheCODE asks every partner, consultant, team member and collaborator to hold to the same set of values — on the argument that adults working with these girls are their first model of what leadership looks like.
Funding and delivery partners.
A selection of the organisations supporting iamtheCODE’s work worldwide.
Bringing the movement to Pakistan.
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Four ways in.
Become a Keeper
Join as a learner and take on the Sustainable Development Goals directly.
As an individualSupport the work
Give time, skills or funds if the goal is one you share.
As an organisationPartner with them
Align your organisation with the Global Goals and fund real delivery.
As a mentorMentor a learner
Give a few hours a month and change what someone believes is available to them.
Skills equal freedom.
One million women and girls coding by 2030 is not a slogan — it is a target with a date on it. Follow the movement, or help fund it.
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