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TechInAfrica – A 15-year-old girl, Felistas Zvavamwe who studies at Cowdray Park High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has developed a School Messenger app. The app works as a platform to facilitate teachers-parents, allowing the parents to keep up with school activities.
Zvavamwe did not work alone for the creation of the School Messenger app. She developed it with her four other friends. She figured an issue in the community where she saw that many students failed to pass on information from school administration their parents. Many students even forgot to tell the information to their parents or hard to memorize the details, leading to distorted details or misleading information to the parents.
Zvavamwe explained: “I was participating under a Technology Innovation Challenge For Girls whereby you state your problem in your community and you solve that problem using technology.
She went on, “After realizing that in my community most of the children do not pass important information from the school to their parents, for example, if the school administration distributes letters to students, you find the same letters in bins or littered all over the school.”
Driven by the problem, she and her other friends decided to develop the app as a solution. The app connects teachers and parents, allowing the parents to keep up with their children activities at school, removing the chance for misinformation.
Source: technomag.co.zw
