Startup Booming in Libya Driven by Women
That has not put Najla Almissalati, co-founder of She Codes, from trying to make a success of her business, which offers females coding and programming training, aimed at providing them with the skills and knowledge needed to start their own businesses and compete in the job market.
Things are not easy, however.
“The current situation is really difficult and the political instability is actually affecting everything,” Almissalati told Disrupt Africa.
“We’ve encountered several challenges and we learnt to anticipate things that could go wrong and find a solution beforehand. For example, there was the threat of delivering the coding courses in an unsafe place where the girls might get harassed, and that’s why we are very careful in choosing our venture location.”
