{"id":9938,"date":"2022-12-12T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2022-12-12T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T07:49:15","slug":"celebrating-cheboy-on-jamhuri-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Cheboy on Jamhuri Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the country marks 59 years of Independence under the ICT theme today, we celebrate the Kenyan queen, Nelly Cheboy, who was crowned the 2022 CNN&#8217;s Hero of the Year.Cheboi quit her software engineering job in the US to create computer labs for schoolchildren in Kenya. She also owns a school where she trains kids with IT skills.Happy Jamhuri Day to everyone and all those who have embraced ICT for a brighter future.Photo: Nelly Cheboi (Twitter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221212_104535_176-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221212_104535_176-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221212_104535_176-1-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221212_104535_176-1-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country marks 59 years of Independence under the ICT theme today, we celebrate the Kenyan queen, Nelly Cheboy, who was crowned the 2022 CNN&#8217;s Hero of the Year.Cheboi quit her software engineering job in the US to create computer labs for schoolchildren in Kenya. She also owns a school where she trains kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221212_104535_176.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}