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World in Progress: Girls learning to code in Chile

Former US President Barack Obama and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are both big fans of a social enterprise called Laboratoria - a social tech enterprise that's helping young women from poor backgrounds to learn how to code. The project started off in Peru in 2014 and quickly expanded to Mexico and Chile. DW reporter Jane Chambers caught up with participants in Santiago de Chile.

(Author: Jane Chambers)

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