Nelly Cheboi is the founder of TechLit Africa, an organization that teaches digital skills in rural primary schools, and the winner of the 2022 CNN Hero award.

[1] Cheboi grew up in poverty in the rural village of Mogotio in Kenya.

[1] She received a full scholarship to study computer science at Augustana College in Illinois in 2012.

In 2019, she founded the nonprofit TechLit Africa with another software engineer, Tyler Cinnamon,[4] after quitting their jobs.

[1] The organization, headquartered in Kenya at Zawadi Yetu,[4] teaches 4000 students aged 5–14 basic computer skills and redistributes recycled technology to enable the creation of computer labs in African schools.