OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
MEGA COMPUTER TRAINING, COMPUTER SETS DONATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR YOUTHS IN GOMBE
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MISSION
To build the capacity of students and people from rural underserved communities, equip and empower them with practical ICT soft skills that are basic and critical for self-reliance and employability across the local government and communities.
Theory of Change
In Sub Saharan Africa, 230 million jobs will require digital skills by 2030, according to the Digital Skills in Sub-Saharan Africa report that IFC recently published. This translates into an opportunity estimated at $130 billion to provide digital skills through a combination of business-to-consumer, business-to-business, and business-to-government training services. The status quo is unacceptable. Only 50 percent of countries in Africa have ‘computer’ skills as part of their school curriculum, compared to 85 percent of countries globally. The majority of the Nigerian populations dwell in rural settlements, hence not opportune to seek self or community development resulting in an increased rate of poverty, redundancy and other vices.
- Low awareness of the benefits of IT,
- Distance of training centers from interested individuals, and
- Concerns over the cost of using IT solutions.
Most public schools in Gombe town despite having a well-equipped ICT unit lack qualified instructors, this has resulted in little or no practical knowledge on the path of the students who eventually understand nothing of what is taught in the schools except they make extra efforts and pay extra fees to acquire these experiences.
To address these issues, the applicant will host information sessions to raise awareness of the benefits of IT and encourage the development of IT partnerships and alliances as a low-cost way of utilizing IT tools.
Project Description: Project Goals and Objectives
Goal:
- To promote the use of information technology by youths and students alike
- To provide an opportunity and access to practical ICT leanings for secondary school students
- To facilitate informed career choices amongst secondary school students
Objectives:
- To attract not less than 500 youths and 200 students and sensitise them to understand the need for information technology and learn (in practice) the basics of ICT from November 2021 through March 2022.
- To provide instructional materials for ICT practical leanings
- To educate students in Secondary Schools on Career development
Project Activities and Strategies in solving problem identified:
- Resource Mobilization through submission of Project Proposal
- Embark on a 5 months MEGA Computer training projected to graduate 500 hundred youths and 200 secondary school students with certification
- Equip 2 public Schools with 6 computer sets and (if the need arise), renovate their ICT lab.
- Carry out Career Development Programs in 5 Secondary Schools.
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Project
The reputation of the HOST
Brief about Project Implementers:
Apochi Obed Okwoli
is a serving Corps Member serving in Sabana Specialist Hospital, Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. He is a graduate with BSc. Human Anatomy from the prestigious University of Calabar; and a certified Professional Digital Psychology and Persuasion Specialist with the ConversionXL Institute, USA.
Shortly after graduation, He had discovered the hidden gold in the ICT world and taped in with great benefits. And this has enabled him to gain over 30 certifications across the ICT and health sector through the year 2019 to 2021 (20 through the year 2020 alone).
Access previous interventions by Apochi Obed here
Elisha Ebeh
Is an ex-corps member and a Software Developer in Gombe, Gombe State. He is also a graduate with a BEd. in Computer Science Education from the prestigious Michael Okpara University of Agriculture. Umudike, Abia State. Even more, he is a Google Certified Andriod Basic Developer, Africa Developer Trainee Program and several others.
Okala Benjamin
is a serving Corps member in Government Day Junior Secondary School where he teaches Computer Education. He is a graduate of Psychology from the Benue State University, Markurdi. He has over 6 years of active experience in practical computer teaching in his state of origin (Benue state).
Chuckwuiken Praise
is a serving Corps member in Funakai, Gombe State. He graduated with a BSc. In Computer Engineering from the prestigious Caritas University, Enugu, Nigeria, and holds several IT certifications. He is also a web developer with up to 4 years of active experience.
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