“The Tech Tent” (Genre: Youth Sci-Fi / Innovation)
Aurelie was always curious. At age 12, she once took apart a broken radio just to see how it breathed. At 15, she discovered the abandoned UNHCR logistics tent at the edge of Zone 3—nobody used it anymore, just boxes of discarded solar panels, broken tech, and forgotten wires.
To anyone else, it was junk.
To Aurelie, it was a treasure chest.
She started sneaking in after school, using a flashlight strapped to her forehead. She’d taught herself basic circuitry from an offline PDF someone shared with her months ago. By week three, she’d rebuilt two solar lanterns. By week five, she created a device that could charge three phones at once.
But the real project was bigger: a “Learning Station”—a solar-powered digital board she could roll to different parts of the settlement. Kids who couldn’t make it to school? The station came to them. Pre-loaded with science lessons, language games, and short documentaries in English, Swahili, and French.
The community started to notice.
One Saturday morning, a man from an NGO came by and saw what she was doing. Within weeks, the tent became “Aurelie’s Lab,” a tech space for refugee kids to build, break, and rebuild their world.
They called her Mwalimu wa Mwanga—The Teacher of Light.
