Kenya's Nelly Cheboi has won this year's CNN Hero of the Year, an award that recognizes individuals who have an impact on society. In 2019, Cheboi quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - An Augustana College graduate is being honored for her work in bringing technology to schools in her home country. Nelly Cheboi is from Kenya and came to the Quad Cities to ...
Nelly Cheboi 29, from Mogotio in Baringo County, is the CNN Hero of the Year award winner. Cheboi was nominated in November, among 10 other nominees to contest the CNN hero of 2022. Other nominees ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Augustana College graduate of 2016 Nelly Cheboi is CNN's Hero of the Year for her tremendous work for TechLit Africa, a nonprofit that redistributes recycled computers in schools ...
Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands of students across rural Kenya with access to donated, upcycled ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - Former Augustana College President Steve Bahls and his wife Jane Bahls have announced the creation of a scholarship as a gift to international students with demonstrated ...
Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from ...