Hardy Pemhiwa
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She knows all the shortcuts on WhatsApp.
But up until now, her future would have been bleak.
She would have been as unemployed as any of her peers.
But for the fact that she has just graduated from one of the AI academies that we have on the continent.
Early morning, Yemurai is teaching math using AI to over 200 students across five schools.
These schools have got free internet.
By midday, Yemurai has joined the local nurse at a health clinic that is not too far away from where she lives, helping with diagnosis, malaria, TB, bilhazia.
That's a disease, by the way.
And by the evening...
Some of her neighbors are coming to see Yamurai with soil samples and with diseased plants that she takes photos of and she's able to tell them what fertilizer, what seeds, what's happening to their maize crop.
Yields are now up 40% where she lives.
But Yamurai is not a teacher.
She's not a nurse.
She's not an agronomist.
What is she?
She's what we call an AI-amplified community entrepreneur.
She's paid for each of these services that I described through her mobile money accounts.
And she's earning three times more than the peers in her local area.
And even those that are in the urban areas
She's solving the problem of the shortage of teachers that is so pervasive across most of Africa.