On Thursday morning, the final day of the #Tech2Empower workshops, we encountered a lively protest surrounding our hotel and bank next door. The group was protesting the flat rate of the Hrynia, 1 Ukrainian Hrynia equals 0.044 US Dollar. Military men were lined up 6 rows deep 10 persons wide on either side of the hotel as well as a bus full of Military parked around the corner for backup.
Before heading up to America House for our final day of workshops, we browsed the under ground markets and beautiful boutique shops for little memories to bring home to share. The woman vendor, here in the photo, was lucky to have a $ conversion booth right next door to her shop. She was a full stop shop helping us convert our US dollars, patient with our indecisiveness and then packing us up for travels.
After the morning training, more on Google Collaboration, we had open time where the NGO Women could meet with all of the tech2empower advisers for questions and collaboration. This was a great moment where you could see how successful our trip was. The women were setting up crowdfunding sites, creating amazing Facebook banners and posts with Canva and sending Google form surveys back to their NGOs to show off their new knowledge!! We learned a lot from these women, even some tech - here is a video that Heather, WAKE co-founder, put together while we were there using a tool called animoto.
We celebrated that night at a Authentic Georgian restaurant, a walk through Independence Square and the underground markets.
I arrived home friday at 2p. Thank you all so much for supporting me and my adventure, WAKE and the 45 NGOs! I hope, through these posts you were able to get a feel for WAKE's mission and a small glimpse in to a world of amazing women, their passions and traditions.
Next trip... Cambodia!
