Mohima's Story

Mohima Ahmed, now Product Lead at With Intelligence and an Apps for Good Trustee, first encountered Apps for Good 15 years ago, back in 2010, when her school took part in the pilot programme. At the time, she joined an after-school club to take part in the course and quickly found herself at the centre of something meaningful.

Her team developed an app idea called ‘Transit’, inspired by their real-life experiences as second-generation Bangladeshi students. The app aimed to bridge language gaps between parents and teachers, acting as a translator for school conversations. Mohima fondly remembers building the app alongside her father, one of her standout memories of her Apps for Good experience.

Before Apps for Good, Mohima was studious and loved STEM subjects, particularly maths, and she assumed she’d follow a traditional path into accountancy. But this hands-on experience planted the seed for a different trajectory. She later returned to her school as an Apps for Good ‘educator’, helping deliver the course to younger students, which was full-circle moment in her journey.

Reflecting years later, Mohima recognised how transformative the course was. “We were young kids fixing our own problems,” she said. “At the time, it was just an exciting opportunity - but it stayed with me.” She said, “Apps for Good is, I think, one of the very, very few opportunities in the education system at the moment to really understand what the real world is like…to get the skills that employers actually care about.”