Senior Creates Apps, Website to Raise Money for African Orphans

Kudos to inspiring young social entrepreneur Suraya Shivji, grade 12, who created an altruistic app to raise money to help African orphans become self-sufficient.

Shivji taught herself to program iPhone gaming apps and get them posted on Apple’s app store. She is now using them, along with a crowd-funding campaign she began this year on her website, Rizikitoto, as a source of revenue for the needy orphans.

The website has generated about $1,300 for the children at a Ugandan orphanage, Bright Futures Home, with money from each app designated for a particular child. The orphanage program is further supported by Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit group that seeks to close the gender gap in technology and engineering.

For details, see this Mercury News article on Shivji: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27165578/q-rizikitotos-suraya-shivji-17-crowd-funds-african

January 7, 2015Tags: Corporate Home Page, In the News, Outreach, topacademics, topoutreach