Name: Angele Messa
Role/Occupation: EdTech Entrepreneur / Founder EduClick
Country: Cameroon
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Angele Messa, a social entrepreneur, and the co-founder of EduClick. EduClick is a EdTech organisation which provides alternative learning methods for students who cannot access formal education. EduClick offers mainly e-learning, online revision and a Tech Lab for kids and young people.
The inspiration for EduClick was Messa’s childhood. As a child, Messa was often ill and thus missed several days of school. As a result, she had to rely on her friends for school notes and had nothing to learn when there were no notes. This motivated Messa to create a platform for ill children, that could enable them to learn from anywhere and still pass their exams. With time, she realised that there were many communities without access to formal education and so she expanded her platform.
Messa’s journey into STEM has been unconventional. She studied humanities and she has a master’s degree in International Relations. After a business venture fell through due to a lack of technology focused skills, she decided to acquire the necessary skills and eventually completed an internship at a software development program. After which, she launched EduClick and firmly assert, “So, if you have always been told that STEM is difficult, take my example and don't listen. If you set your mind to learn, you will always learn new things and excel at it.”
EduClick has been able to serve over seven thousand young people in Cameroon and beyond. She is driven by the calls, text messages or emails she receives from parents thanking her for the services at EduClick, “that is what keeps me moving. The idea that our services are bringing hope to someone somewhere… motivates me to do more.”
EduClick has received numerous accolades such as the African Union Education Innovation Award 2018, also becoming the Agenda 2063 Champion for the AUDA-NEPAD and been featured amongst Most Influential Young Cameroonians 2018. In 2019, Messa was selected to spend five weeks at the Silicon Valley in the American Techwomen program.
Read on and be inspired by Angele Messa’s journey, after all, it is just a click away.
Angele Messa was interviewed by Dhruti Dheda, the founder of the African Steminist on behalf of Geeky Girl Reality. The full interview can be found here.
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