The CNN Heroes award celebrates outstanding people who are making impact in their communities with charity work.
Every year 100 nominees are named and the list is then whittled down by an online voting process until 10 nominees remain.
She was the only black woman who made her the final list.
Her prize gives international advertising to its foundation (Pearls Africa Foundation) and also receives a cash prize of $ 10,000 to help her continue the great work she is doing.
The foundation of Abisoye Ajayi welcomes Girls Coding, a free program that teaches disadvantaged girls how to code. The initiative has enabled almost 400 girls since its launch in 2012.
Abisoye is also passionate about seeing more Nigerian women employed in professional, management and technology jobs.
Nigerian, Abisoye Ajayi Akinfolarin was chosen as one of the top 10 heroes for teaching young less privileged girls how to code.
In her award acceptance speech, she called on everyone to join the fight to educate more girls so the world can see the precious gift they have to share.
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