A group of award-winning pre-teen girls have inspired many online as they invented a problem-solving app to combat food insecurity in Nigeria.
The 12-year-olds girls Goodness Nwonanne-Chima and Tiffany Tejiri Oghenemaro, along with 11-year-olds Excel Kiisibari Barile-Nwika and Salome Obehiremen Akhabhau designed the app called ‘AgriConnect’ app.
Popularly known as the ‘Smarties’, the geniuses made it known that the application will connect farmers, landowners, and investors, combining their resources and skills to solve food insecurity and promote local food production in Nigeria.
The girls say their innovation supports the United Nations’ Goal 2, which aims to end hunger and improve food security and nutrition by 2030.
Through the AgriConnect app, someone with land but no farming expertise can connect with a farmer who has the skills but lacks land and funding. They can also find investors willing to finance agricultural projects.
One of the talented school girls, Salome explained, “The investor brings the money to fund the farm, the farmer brings the skills and knowledge, and the landowner provides the land. At the end of the day, they all benefit from the farm according to the profit-sharing agreement they make.”
Due to their innovative project, these young girls won the Beginner Division finalist team of the 2024 Technovation Girls competition, which encourages girls to embrace STEM education. The competition challenges young girls worldwide to use technology to solve environmental problems, with special awards in education, agriculture, and climate change.
While school girls from China and Poland won awards for climate change and education, respectively, the Nigerian pre-teens won the Combat Hunger Award for agriculture. Their victory qualifies them among the 15 global winners, granting them further training in California, USA, where they will compete with other teams later this year.
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The video triggered massive reactions online as social media users shared their thoughts via comment section. Some reactions are shown below:
olajumoke_omotayo_351 said, “Things I love to see ❤️❤️”.
rosamender said, “Proud of you girls…. 👏👏👏👏👏👏”.
iamrubybae said, “Very Demure Teenager,Very Mindful .. Congratulations 😍😍😍😍”.
_.omolabake said, “Beautiful and intelligent girls 😍❤🔥 Thanks for making us proud, greater wins for you girls ❤❤💯”.
kodedgeene said, “Fight food wetin?🌚😂😂my prayers are with them jare.🤝”.