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Welcome to 2026! 🎉We're kicking off the year by taking you through memory lane. Back to where it all began.When DEF open...
08/01/2026

Welcome to 2026! 🎉

We're kicking off the year by taking you through memory lane. Back to where it all began.

When DEF opened its doors in Abuja in 2016, Nigeria already had over 10.5 million children out of school, declining teacher welfare and quality, and education barely on government's priority list. We started with one belief: education is the foundation of development.

So we got to work.

THE EARLY PROGRAMS:

📚 – Community mobilization across multiple states getting children back into classrooms (link in bio)

👨‍🏫 Teachers Professional Development – Equipping educators with skills to transform learning outcomes (see highlights for throwback content!)

🏆 Abuja LEA Spelling Bee (2017-2019) – Nigeria's first competition of its kind, promoting literacy and building confidence in primary school learners (also see highlights for throwback content!)

📢 Education Advocacy – From climate solutions to our documentaries on education under attack, we amplified the urgency of protecting education (check our YouTube for full docs!)

None of this would exist without our founding members and early believers: Grace Josiah, Emmanuel Ukah, Olamide Apejoye, Michael Anyanacho, Ethel Efem, Deborah Akinbinu, Rita Nwankwo, Yemi Shangolana, Samuel Agbi, Nkiruka Otuya, Tobi Johannes, Joel Okpapi, Florence Young-Iseko, Ikalone Udoh, and so many others who believed before the results showed up. You all are the foundation beneath the foundation 🙏🏾

By 2022, we had reached thousands of beneficiaries and established critical partnerships. But more importantly, we learned that sustainable development requires addressing both immediate crises and long-term systemic gaps. That insight would transform everything that came next.
Stay tuned. The story is just beginning.

All program links in bio! 🔗

Bridging the technology gap in rural African education is less about futuristic tools and more about addressing foundati...
15/12/2025

Bridging the technology gap in rural African education is less about futuristic tools and more about addressing foundational access. In many communities, unreliable electricity, limited connectivity, and context-blind digital solutions continue to restrict how learning happens, especially for girls.

Yet evidence shows that when emerging technologies are designed for rural realities, outcomes change. Solar-powered classrooms, offline digital platforms, and locally built STEM tools are enabling learners to engage meaningfully with science and technology, even in low-resource settings.

When girls are given access to the right infrastructure, skills, and mentorship, they do more than catch up. They create, innovate, and solve real problems. This is how educational equity is built, not through inspiration alone, but through intentional investment in inclusive systems.

03/12/2025

Meet six students from Government Secondary School Kubwa who participated in GYST, a project designed to address the critical underrepresentation of women in STEM. The team consist of Pamela, Joy, Angela, Daniella, Faith and Rihanat.

Their innovation is an affordable artificial limb which addresses a documented gap in assistive technology access in Africa where over 500,000 people live with limb amputations and conventional prosthetics remain financially out of reach for most families.

GYST targets secondary school girls at the critical age where research shows interest in STEM subjects either solidifies or drops significantly. By providing direct exposure to engineering design thinking, digital learning platforms and real world problem solving, the project creates pathways into technical careers that currently show stark gender disparities.

In Nigeria, women make up less than 15 percent of the engineering workforce despite representing half the population. Early intervention programmes like GYST work to shift these numbers by building technical confidence and demonstrating career possibilities before societal expectations narrow girls' ambitions.

This aligns with SDG 4 on quality education, SDG 5 on gender equality, SDG 8 on decent work and economic growth, and SDG 10 on reducing inequalities.

Watch the full documentary here >> 🎥 https://youtu.be/Fg6kRkLEkag

Gender-based violence doesn't just harm bodies. It destroys futures. Girls facing violence at home, in communities, or i...
01/12/2025

Gender-based violence doesn't just harm bodies. It destroys futures. Girls facing violence at home, in communities, or in schools are pulled out of education, married off early, denied the chance to learn, dream, and build.

When a girl is forced into marriage, her education ends. When she faces violence at school, she stops attending. When her family believes her only value is as a wife, her potential is buried.

GYST exists because education is protection. When girls learn STEM, build technology, and discover their capability, they gain more than skills. They gain agency, voice, and pathways to economic independence that make them less vulnerable to violence and control.

The 100+ girls who built innovations this year aren't just engineers. They're girls who now see themselves differently, who have options, who can negotiate their futures. Education doesn't solve everything, but it opens doors that violence tries to lock.

This 16 Days, we stand with every girl fighting for her right to learn, create, and choose her own path.

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27/11/2025

"Before GYST, I thought engineering was just for men or advanced learners. I didn't believe anything good could come from us with our little knowledge."

Meet Zachariah Dianazenom Ali from Government Secondary School Bwari, Abuja.

She and her team built an Integrated Green Engineering Renewable Energy System—technology that combines Jatropha biodiesel, plastic waste fuel conversion, biogas, and syngas to create clean energy while producing organic fertilizer, biochar, and animal feed as by-products.

What changed for her?

"With the help of GYST, we were able to create this amazing product. The most important thing I learned is that we can innovate. We can do anything. We can help our environment."

Her message to girls everywhere: "Don't be limited by your society. You can do what you think you can. You may not think you're capable, but you have everything it takes to build the best."

This is what GYST does. It doesn't just teach STEM. It shows girls they already have everything they need to engineer solutions.



GYST 2025 | Funded by & PICTT | Implemented by

26/11/2025

"Before joining GYST, I really didn't believe that science was for me. I used to think it was only for the smart students. But when I started creating and experimenting things all by myself, I realized that I was smart enough." — Emmanuella

Meet Ozoko Ummulsalma and Okenyi Emmanuella from Junior Secondary School Kuje.

Together with their friends, they designed and built a Mudbrick Moulding Machine making affordable housing materials accessible to their community. But their biggest discovery? They're engineers.

Ummulsalma's message to girls everywhere: "You don't need to figure it all out at once. You just need to take one step, one idea, one project at a time. Engineering is all about solving problems and learning along the way."

This is what GYST does. It doesn't just teach STEM. It transforms how girls see themselves.



GYST 2025 | Funded by & PICTT | Implemented by

THANK YOU COORDINATORS!The success of the GYST 2.0 initiative reflects the professional dedication of school science coo...
25/11/2025

THANK YOU COORDINATORS!

The success of the GYST 2.0 initiative reflects the professional dedication of school science coordinators who delivered quality STEM instruction across partnered schools in the FCT, Nasarawa, and Kwara states.

These educators demonstrated commitment to programme fidelity while adapting curriculum to diverse school contexts, resulting in measurable student outcomes including 95% completion rate and 16 functional prototypes addressing community needs.

These amazing men and women were mostly our eyes and ears in each of these schools. They facilitated technical training in circuit design, prototype development, and scientific methodology while maintaining consistent engagement with students throughout the ten-month implementation cycle.
Effective STEM education programming requires

To those on this list and others, WE APPRECIATE YOU.

24/11/2025

There's a moment in every innovator's journey where doubt turns into confidence. Where "I can't" becomes "I built this."

Earlier this month, at the GYST & DELT-Her Grand Finale, we witnessed 10+ of those moments.

We witnessed how girls who learned design thinking, circuit design, and fabrication showcased products they made. Tech/engineering products which turned waste into fuel, engineered cleaner air, robots that help farmers, amongst many other innovations.

These smart secondary school female students are using STEM to solve challenges that matter.

But this is about more than projects. GYST exists to close the gender gap in tech and engineering - ensuring girls gain the recognition, value, and equal opportunities their male counterparts have always had. When we educate girls in STEM, we're not just teaching skills. We're building a generation of women who use technology for social impact, who lead innovation, and who prove that engineering has no gender.

This is what believing in girls looks like. This is how we build gender balance in Nigeria's tech future.



Funded by NASENI & PICTT | Implemented by Dbegotin Educational Foundation

THANK YOU to Our SchoolsOur special appreciation to all the schools across FCT, Nasarawa, and Kwara states who participa...
24/11/2025

THANK YOU to Our Schools

Our special appreciation to all the schools across FCT, Nasarawa, and Kwara states who participated to the finals of the GYST 2.0 project. You allocated classroom space, supported coordinators, and championed girls' STEM education within their communities. Your commitment created the foundation for everything that followed. Your belief in your students made this possible.

FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY:
Government Secondary School, Bwari
Government Secondary School, Jiwa
Government Secondary School, Kubwa
Government Secondary School, Garki
Government Science Secondary School, Tungan Maje
Government Girls Secondary School, Dukpa
Government Girls Secondary School, Dutse
Government Girls Secondary School, Abaji
Junior Secondary School, Kuje
Junior Secondary School, Pasali
Junior Secondary School, Jikwoyi
Junior Secondary School, Phase III, Gwagwalada

NASARAWA STATE:
Government Science Secondary School, Nasarawa Eggon
Government Science Secondary School, Obi
Government Girls Science Secondary School, Doma

KWARA STATE:
Iqra College, Ilorin
Muslim Commercial School, Igbada

From all of us at Dbegotin Educational Foundation, thank you for being part of this journey.

Join us today as we honour the girls, teachers, school leaders, and key stakeholders who participated in the GYST 2.0 Co...
20/11/2025

Join us today as we honour the girls, teachers, school leaders, and key stakeholders who participated in the GYST 2.0 Competition.

This recognition ceremony celebrates the dedication and innovation demonstrated throughout the programme, from initial training to final prototype presentations.

During the event, we will present certificates to students who completed the full programme cycle, recognize educators who coordinated GYST activities in their schools, and acknowledge the authorities that made this initiative possible at the grassroot level.

The ceremony will also feature student presentations showcasing selected innovations and remarks from programme leadership on the next phase of GYST, including the upcoming mentorship component launching in January of 2026. This moment matters because it affirms our collective commitment to creating pathways for young women in science and technology, particularly in communities where such opportunities remain limited.

The event takes place today, November 20th at 11:00 AM West Africa Time as a virtual gathering accessible to all participants and supporters across Nigeria and beyond.

Bridging the gender gap in the global tech and engineering sector is not just a talking point for us at the Dbegotin Edu...
18/11/2025

Bridging the gender gap in the global tech and engineering sector is not just a talking point for us at the Dbegotin Educational Foundation. It is work we have committed ourselves to through the GYST Project, where girls in secondary schools are gaining real access to STEM learning, practical exposure, and the encouragement they need to see themselves as future innovators.

We are watching curiosity grow into confidence and early skills develop into genuine interest in careers that once felt out of reach. Over time, these investments will shape a more inclusive and competitive workforce for the continent, with more young women contributing to the solutions Africa needs.

This is the kind of future DEF is helping to build, and every girl who steps into a STEM space because of this work brings us one step closer to it.

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