Over Six hundred students from six slums in Nairobi are the first batch of the beneficiaries to pursue a fully Sponsored computer end user professional e-learning course which runs for two months.
The uniqueness of this mobile project is that the class room is a bus with mounted computers which are powered by solar energy. During rainy and cloudy days the batteries are charged electrically, says the Project manager ,Alex Chege.
The bus with 20 computers can be used to teach more than 40 students in any given time, Chege explains. Yes, the bus has what they have dubbed as computer booths, which are hung from the windows of the bus – serving as a cyber cafe to non students out of the bus.
This e-learning mobile school is sponsored by Craft Silicon Foundation out to give a new lease of life to slum dwellers. Indeed, through e-learning life time knowledge can be tapped wherever one is, said Prof. Sam Ongeri the minister for education during the e-learning regional conference, even “ in villages and markets.”
Youths from the slums aged between 18 and 22 years are eligible to register for this computer course. “The lives of these slum dwellers are being transformed,” says Florence Karanja, a trainer. As the graduates match forward to become facilitators and some of them securing employment where their skills are applicable, she adds.
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