Giving Compass' Take:

· According to the UN, almost 1 in every 3 Cameroonian girls are married by the age of 18, meaning they also drop out of school early. Global Citizen explains how society could benefit from the different initiatives launched in Cameroon aiming to educate and empower women and provide them access to work.

· How does educating women help with global development? How does it help lift women out of poverty and benefit society as a whole? 

· Here are three reasons why boosting women's work is necessary.

With a flash of green light, a robot sputters and whizzes across the room, obeying the remote control commands 15-year-old Xaviera Nguefo and her team send its way.

It is a scene that would not look out of place in a futuristic sci-fi fantasy, but is instead playing out in Yaounde, the dusty capital of Cameroon, with its potholed streets and frequent power outages.

In a country where 1 in 4 girls do not even learn to read, Xaviera, one of about 20 young Cameroonians studying at the NextGen center in Yaounde, is picking up the basics of artificial intelligence.

"I love doing that because the physics that they teach us (at school) is all applied here," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "And it makes me a little bit smarter!"

The center is the brainchild of Janet Fofang, a pioneering scientist and teacher who aims to train the future tech innovators of her country — with a particular focus on its girls.

Read the full article about Cameroon's women by Inna Lazareva at Global Citizen.