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Tyler Cinnamon is a American programmer and entrepreneur. He started TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi in 2018 to disrupt poverty with used IT devices.

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Nelly Cheboi is a celebrated social entrepreneur, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/nelly-cheboi/?sh=179de9a85764" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forbes 30 under 30</a> honoree, and<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/14/world/education-technology-recycling-kenya-poverty-cnnheroes/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CNN Hero</a>. After growing up in rural Kenya and lifting her family out of poverty, she focused on her community.

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Tuko Picks Up Nelly's Surprise Return

<h2>Summary</h2>Tyler and Nelly were returning to Kenya in July this year, but kept it a surprise from Nelly's family and the TechLit team. Nelly recorded everyone's reaction as they found out, and compiled it into a TikTok video. Then, tuko.co.ke picked up the story and it went viral!<h2>Nelly's Comments on Instagram</h2>My surprise TikTok video got picked up by tuko.co.ke , a leading news site in Kenya under Celebrities tab 🙈. Definitely adding producer to my resume. The coolest part is that both my immediate family and techlitafrica family are in it 🤗.I was really surprised how quickly each person become my assistant producer after the surprise. My little sister called the driver and told him he will be picking friends of mine my from Nigeria. He drove all the way thinking of questions he will be asking them about Nigeria. After his surprise, he came up with the idea of me sitting in the trunk/boot and he opens it asking them to help him unload. Each one of them said they were pranked 10/10 and wanted to prank the next person.I am really honored tuko.co.ke picked it up and mentioned them in the article. This is a sneak preview of how it is like to be in the techlitafrica family. The video is the reel right before this one.

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Tyler and Nelly were returning to Kenya in July this year, but kept it a surprise from Nelly's family and the TechLit team. Nelly recorded everyone's reaction as they found out, and compiled it into a TikTok video. Then, tuko.co.ke picked up the story!

kenyans.co.ke (Popular Kenyan Blog) Exaggerates Nelly's Wealth

Quora featured an answer Nelly wrote on their site. They featured the answer on their social media and also on Forbes. Kenyans.co.ke saw this and featured Nelly. The article was well written but they had mixed up Zawadi Yetu fee's structure and TechLit. Zawadi Yetu, a private school that Nelly build while in college charges $10 a month. Zawadi only has 300 students. TechLit on the other had only parents a $1 a kid a month. TechLit works with 4000 students. Kenyans.co.ke made an honest mistake where they took the Zawadi charge and multiplied by the number of TechLit students. This comes out to 40,000 a month or 4.6 million Kenyan shilling. They initial headline which has since been correct was "29-Yr-Old Kenyan Girl 4.6 a Month and Giving It All to Poor Kids". That went viral! So many other news outlets in the country picked the story up include Tuko another famous Kenyan news site. Such an honest mistake headline brought a lot of attention to TechLit Africa which made us an household name in many parts of Kenya

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kenyans.co.ke (Popular Kenyan Blog) Exaggerates Nelly's Wealth

Nelly Cheboi (Kosi)

I grew up in a rural village in Kenya. The situation there was dire.&nbsp;Circumstances forced me to raise my younger sister when I was just nine years old.&nbsp;I wanted to change the narrative of kids growing up in communities like mine.&nbsp;I want to fix poverty, and for good this time.Through hard work and determination, I landed a full scholarship to Augustana College, in America.&nbsp;Coming to the United States and studying computer science gave me the platform to accelerate my impact.&nbsp;As an undergrad, I invested all of my income from various campus jobs into my community back in Kenya.&nbsp;I built a school, Zawadi, there and later started TechLit Africa.TechLit Africa is a non-profit American organization that redistributes recycled technology&nbsp;to build computer labs in African schools. We have already built 10 computers in rural Kenya&nbsp;and are currently working on our next 100 computer labs. We already have around 4,000 students&nbsp;and 20 teachers. By next year we will have around 40,000 students and 200 teachers.Our program is unique because we teach classes that are relevant; we hire local teachers&nbsp;to make sure of it. We train our own teachers to run the computer labs in their own community,&nbsp;who meet every day to improve their classes. We are unlocking a world of opportunities to these kids.&nbsp;They will be inspired to take on a dozen careers: they will have the skills to tap into&nbsp;the global economy straight from the village.This is my life's work because I know first hand how awful poverty is. We plan to do this for&nbsp;the whole of rural Africa, positioning ourselves to 10x our growth year after year.&nbsp;TechLit is my opportunity to fix poverty, and for good this time.

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