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I loved to create and study: I was curious and imaginative

My name is Akaliza Gara and I have been working since I was a teenager; from up-and-coming businesses to youth centres , university cafeterias to inner city office buildings. I have travelled and lived in over 13 countries spanning five continents.

Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Akaliza Gara, Shaking Sun proprietor. Akaliza Gara, Shaking Sun proprietor.
Akaliza Gara, Shaking Sun proprietor.
My name is Akaliza Gara and I have been working since I was a teenager; from up-and-coming businesses to youth centres , university cafeterias to inner city office buildings. I have travelled and lived in over 13 countries spanning five continents. I have a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Technology and has a broad and ever-increasing portfolio of graphic design, website development and animation work. I decided to start my business- ‘Shaking Sun’- as a platform to explore, develop and realise my several ambitious ideas and creations. "I especially want to promote ICT among girls and women because many think that it is a man’s world - and in all honesty it still is. But if you look at the history of computing you will find that women played an integral role: to name a few examples, one of the first (if not THE first computer programs) was written by a young woman (Ada Lovelace) in the 1800s and Grace Hopper is credited for making popular the term computer 'bug' when she discovered an actual insect inside a computer she was fixing 1947. In Rwanda, ICT knowledge is an extremely powerful tool and is increasingly essential to an individual’s professional success. I think everyone - both men and women - need to realise how this can impact their world forever. As a young girl I dreamed of being an artist. I loved to create, I loved to study other artists - I was curious and imaginative. I also wanted to be a writer - I used to write poems, songs, short stories - even novels that never got finished! I dreamed of creating something that would last forever. Today, I feel like I am at the edge of my dreams – it’s like everything is much closer and more real than I could have planned for so early on in my life. I feel excited about the future—and often think whether my child-self would be happy with how far I have come. I hope that my parents feel proud of me and that they are seeing the 'fruits of their labour'! I don't know what their dreams for me were specifically—good grades at school? Financial success? Marriage? Children? I think it would be something more along the line with; happy. I believe my parents really want me to be happy with my life and I am so thankful that they made that possible. Akaliza Gara is a young Rwandan entrprenuer who started her ICT business, ‘Shaking Sun’.