Nelly Cheboi grew up in poverty in rural Kenya, struggling with basic sustenance and education. Cheboi ultimately received a scholarship in America, worked odd jobs to support her family and discovered her passion for computer science.

Cheboi came up with a plan to end intergenerational poverty by leveraging the digital economy to provide more opportunities for rural Africans to make a living. She invested all of her income from various campus jobs into her community back in Kenya. She built a school, Zawadi, and later started TechLit Africa, an organization that up-cycles old computers to teach digital skills in primary schools.

Cheboi is on Forbes 30 under 30 list and also the CNN Hero of Year 2022.

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