Faiths Forum for London has partnered with social media giant, Twitter, to provide coding workshops for girls of all faiths.
As part of their successful partnership, they will provide four invaluable full-day workshops for 30 girls, aged between 11 to 13 years old, from a variety of faith schools.
The inspirational workshops, which are now in their fourth year, not only inspire young women to pursue a future career in tech, but also introduce the students to those from different faith backgrounds.
Sessions provide the opportunity for the girls to form friendships across communities and ask questions about each other’s faiths, practices and cultures.
At a time when Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and racial hatred is prevalent, the chance for young people to forms these bonds is crucial to stamping out hate, helping build bridges across communities.
The course has been created by female Twitter coding engineers to deliver coding classes, and has so far trained more than 250 students and inspired 80 per cent to pursue a career in IT.
Rabbi Natan Levy, Head of Operations at Faiths Forum for London, said: “The partnership between business and faith sectors is a refreshing model of true collaboration.
“While the students learn about the tech, they are also learning about each other’s shared values. It is really wonderful to see the students asking important questions about each other’s communities and gaining an understanding of different faiths. Those who take part find there are more similarities between them than differences.”
One eleven-year-old girl who took part, Shadiya Porter from Ursuline High School, raved about the opportunity and said: “It’s important to work with different people of different backgrounds as you make new friends and learn new things.”
The schools taking part in this year’s workshops include two Jewish schools, Yavneh College and Hasmonean Girls, two Muslim schools, Al-Sadiq and Al-Zahra School and Ayesha Community School and a Catholic school, Ursuline High School.
