Polygon is collaborating with Web3 Ladies, an African business with a vision to enroll over one hundred thousand African women in blockchain technology over the course of three years, to achieve this goal.
In the context of the partnership, Polygon will finance the cohort 3 mentoring program for Web3 Ladies. 350 women in cohorts 1 and 2 were mentored, and the organization intends to increase the standard of their coaching in cohort 3. As a sponsor, Polygon will also provide these women with tutors and a frictionless educational experience.
Speaking about the collaboration, Enebeli Oluchi, founder of Web3 ladies said, “Web3Ladies is always excited about building relationships that can potentially impact her community of highly enthusiastic females in the Web3 space, which is why we launched the Web3Ladies mentorship program, and this partnership presents an opportunity for our Cohort III mentees to have access to high-quality trainings and mentorships which will provide leaders in the Web3 space.”
He added. “Beyond supporting ladies already in the tech industry, we believe this partnership will help us do more in the Web3 Community for ladies in Nigeria and Africa at large, as well as reflect Polygon’s readiness in transforming Africa’s tech industry through the blockchain.”
The Developer Relations at Polygon, Shodipo Ayomide also said “Education is key at the for-front of Polygon’s involvement in Africa and we are trying our best to support as many educational communities in the region as we can, and we are just getting started.”
“We have started various initiatives across Africa with various partners. Seeing the work Web3Ladies is doing in Nigeria got us excited and we knew we just had to be part of it. We are looking forward to partnering with more companies/communities in the region,” Antoni Martin, Enterprise Lead at Polygon added.
Web3 Ladies has about 13,000 individuals that are a portion of its network. These women are from a variety of nations throughout the region, such as Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa.
According to Enebeli Oluchi, 700 women among 816 applications were accepted into cohort 3 initiative.