{"id":76,"date":"2024-10-18T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.bosathemes.com\/bosa\/charity-02\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:04:08","slug":"make-a-difference-in-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Tech Betiyan: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM, One Girl at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"76\" class=\"elementor elementor-76\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6680cfb0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6680cfb0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c36af1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c36af1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: uppercase;\">OPTASIA FOUNDATION\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 TECH BETIYAN\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 GIRLS IN STEM<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid #0b7b8c; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 16pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"margin: 20pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 26pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-transform: none; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">She Opened the Laptop and<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c;\">the World Opened Back<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a;\">Tech Betiyan: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM, One Girl at a Time<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;\">By Optasia Foundation Team\u00a0 |\u00a0 March 2025\u00a0 |\u00a0 Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1.75pt solid #e8670a; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14pt; margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 30pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0cm;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\">Aanya had never touched a computer before the age of thirteen. Not because she wasn\u2019t curious, she was endlessly, hungrily curious. But in her village outside Bareilly, computers existed in the same category as aeroplanes and five-star hotels: things that belonged to a different kind of life. A life, she had been told in a hundred quiet ways, that was not meant for her.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">The first time an Optasia Foundation volunteer placed a laptop in front of her, Aanya did not reach for it immediately. She looked at it the way you look at something you have wanted for so long you are almost afraid to want it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Then she opened it. And the world opened back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><b>This is the story of Tech Betiyan \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Optasia Foundation\u2019s mission to bring girls in rural India into the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Not as an afterthought. Not as a quota. But as the brilliant, deserving, world-changing force they have always been.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;\">A Room Full of Men \u2014 and the Girls Who Were Never Invited In<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Picture the engineering departments of India\u2019s top universities. The boardrooms of its technology companies. The research labs where the future is being coded, calculated, and built. Now ask yourself: how many women do you see?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">The answer, even in 2025, remains deeply uncomfortable. India has one of the most severe gender gaps in STEM in the world and the roots of that gap don\u2019t start in universities or workplaces. They start much, much earlier. They start in villages like Aanya\u2019s, where a girl\u2019s curiosity is quietly discouraged before it ever gets the chance to become ambition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">The numbers tell a stark story:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 8pt 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><ul><li><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c;\">43%\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u2014 India\u2019s female share of STEM graduates, one of the highest globally. And yet<\/span><\/li><li><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c;\">14%\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u2014 the proportion of women actually employed in India\u2019s tech and engineering sectors<\/span><\/li><li><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c;\">< 5%\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u2014 women in senior leadership roles in Indian technology companies<\/span><\/li><li><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c;\">1 in 3\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u2014 rural girls who have never accessed a computer or the internet before secondary school<\/span><\/li><li><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c;\">2x\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u2014 how much more likely a rural girl is to drop STEM subjects by Class 9 compared to her urban peers<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\">\n<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">The pipeline isn\u2019t broken at the top. It is broken at the very beginning in the moment a girl is handed a broom instead of a book, or told that maths is \u201cnot for girls like you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: none;\">What Aanya Did Next Changed Her Entire Village<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Back to Aanya. The laptop was open. A volunteer was beside her, patient and unhurried, showing her how to navigate a simple coding interface designed for beginners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Aanya made the cursor move across the screen. She typed her name and watched it appear in glowing letters. She laughed a short, surprised sound, like something had caught her off guard. Then she leaned forward, and she didn\u2019t lean back for the rest of the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Over the following weeks, Aanya learned the basics of digital literacy through Optasia\u2019s Tech Betiyan programme. She learned how to use productivity tools, how to search for information, how to present her ideas visually. She entered a district-level digital creativity competition her first ever and placed second.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1.75pt solid #0b7b8c; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14pt; margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 30pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0cm;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\">\u201cWhen I won that prize,\u201d she said, \u201cmy father looked at me differently. Not like I was his daughter who was good at school. Like I was someone who could do something he didn\u2019t understand. That felt like power.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">But the most remarkable thing Aanya did came months later. She started teaching other girls in her neighbourhood \u2014 unofficial, after-school sessions in her home, using the skills she had learned. Word spread. Parents who had been skeptical started sending their daughters. A girl who had never touched a computer became, at fourteen, a teacher of technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: none;\">Why STEM? Why Now? Why These Girls?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Some people ask: why focus on STEM specifically? Isn\u2019t any education valuable?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Yes all education is valuable. But STEM education carries a particular kind of power in the world we are building right now. The jobs of the next generation \u2014 the careers that will define India\u2019s economy, its innovation, its place in the global future are overwhelmingly going to be rooted in technology, data, engineering, and science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">If girls are not in that room, India doesn\u2019t just lose half its potential workforce. It loses half its potential ideas. Half its problem-solving perspectives. Half its innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;\">The Diversity Dividend<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Research consistently shows that diverse teams \u2014 teams that include women, people from varied backgrounds, different ways of thinking produce better outcomes. More creative solutions. More robust products. More human technology. When girls from rural India enter STEM, they don\u2019t just benefit themselves. They make the entire field better.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;\">The Economic Argument<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">A girl with STEM skills earns more, builds more financial independence, and contributes more to her family\u2019s economic stability than almost any other pathway available to her. In a country where women\u2019s economic participation is already low, STEM is not a luxury \u2014 it is a ladder.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;\">The Role Model Ripple<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Every girl who enters STEM becomes visible proof that it is possible. She is the <\/span><b>mirror<\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\"> that the next girl needs to see herself in. Aanya teaching her neighbours wasn\u2019t an accident \u2014 it was a ripple. One girl\u2019s breakthrough becoming another girl\u2019s beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: none;\">What Tech Betiyan Actually Does<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Tech Betiyan is Optasia Foundation\u2019s dedicated initiative to bring STEM exposure, skills, and inspiration to girls in rural Uttar Pradesh. It is hands-on, community-rooted, and built around one simple belief: given the right environment, every girl can thrive in STEM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Here is how we make it real:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Digital Literacy Workshops \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">We introduce girls to computers, tablets, and the internet \u2014 many for the very first time through structured, joyful, hands-on sessions led by trained volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>STEM Exposure Events \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Science demonstrations, mathematics puzzles, coding introductions, and engineering challenges that make STEM feel exciting, accessible, and fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Mentor Matching \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">We connect girl students with women working in technology, science, and engineering \u2014 so they can see, in flesh and blood, what their future could look like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>School Competitions \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">District-level STEM competitions that give girls a public stage to showcase their skills, build confidence, and earn recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Family Awareness Sessions \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">We work with parents and community members to shift the narrative around girls in STEM because a girl\u2019s ambition needs her family\u2019s support to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\">\n<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;\">The Gap Is Not About Ability. It Never Was.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Let us be clear about something: the gender gap in STEM is not because girls cannot do science or mathematics. That is a myth so thoroughly debunked it is almost embarrassing that it still circulates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Girls perform equally to boys and often outperform them \u2014 in STEM subjects when given equal access, equal encouragement, and equal belief. The gap exists not in girls\u2019 minds but in the systems, attitudes, and structures that surround them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">It exists in the textbook that shows only male scientists. In the teacher who calls on the boys more often without realising it. In the parent who buys his son a toy robot and his daughter a toy kitchen. In the school that has a computer lab but implicitly signals\u00a0 through a hundred small gestures that it is not really for the girls.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1.75pt solid #e8670a; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14pt; margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 30pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0cm;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\">\u201cThe most dangerous phrase in any language is: this is not for you. Tech Betiyan exists to replace that phrase with: this was always for you. We just needed to open the door.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0b7b8c; text-transform: none;\">Open the Door With Us<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Aanya is not exceptional. She is what every girl can be when someone believes in her enough to place a laptop in front of her and say: this is yours. Go ahead. Try.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Tech Betiyan needs your support to reach more Aanyas \u2014 in more villages, more schools, more communities across rural India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Donate \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Fund digital devices, STEM materials, and workshop programmes that put technology directly in girls\u2019 hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Volunteer \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Are you a woman in STEM? Your story is the most powerful thing you can share. Become a Tech Betiyan mentor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Partner \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Tech companies, educational institutions, and CSR programmes let\u2019s build this together at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Spread the word \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Share this story. Tag a woman in STEM who inspires you. Make the invisible visible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\">\n<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 24pt 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\">\u201cSomewhere in rural India, a girl is waiting to open her first laptop. She doesn\u2019t know it yet \u2014 but when she does, she will change everything.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"color: #0b7b8c;\">\u2014 Optasia Foundation, Tech Betiyan<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid #0b7b8c; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 16pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a;\"><img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\"\ud83d\udce7\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f4e7.svg\"> contact@optasia.in\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcde\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f4de.svg\"> +91 9473513973\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf10\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f310.svg\"> optasia.in<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;\">Optasia Foundation, Bareilly, India\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Tech Betiyan: Girls in STEM<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPTASIA FOUNDATION\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 TECH BETIYAN\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 GIRLS IN STEM She Opened the Laptop and the World Opened Back Tech Betiyan: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM, One Girl at a Time By Optasia Foundation Team\u00a0 |\u00a0 March 2025\u00a0 |\u00a0 Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh Aanya had never touched a computer before the age of thirteen. 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