Over the past months, we’ve been working with two partner organisations, Team4Tech and Kenya Connect, to support 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 education across the rural county of Machakos, Kenya.

Working in rural Kenya

In line with our 2025 strategy, we have started work to improve 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 education for young people in Kenya and South Africa. We are especially eager to support communities that hezyo加勒比波多野结衣 educational disadvantage. One of our projects in this area is in partnership with Team4Tech and Kenya Connect. Together we have set up the Dr Isaac Minae EdTech Hub in the community Kenya Connect supports in the rural county of Machakos, and we are training teachers so they can equip their learners with coding and physical 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 skills.

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– Sharon Runge, Executive Director, Kenya Connect

We are providing the Wamunyu community with the hardware and the skills and knowledge training they need to use digital technology to create solutions to problems they see. The training will make sure that teachers across Machakos can sustain the EdTech Hub and 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 education activities independently. This is important because we want the community to be empowered to solve problems that matter to them and for all the local young people to have opportunities that are open to their peers in Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, and other cities in Kenya.

Launching the Dr Isaac Minae EdTech Hub in Wamunyu

In October this year, we travelled to Wamunyu to help Kenya Connect set up and launch the Dr Isaac Minae EdTech Hub, for which we provided hardware including 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 Pi 400 computers and physical 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 kits with 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 Pi Pico microcontrollers, LEDs, buzzers, buttons, motors and more. We also held a teacher training session to start setting up the local educators with the skills and knowledge they need to teach coding and physical 彩客网竞彩足球完整版. In the training, educators brought a range of hezyo加勒比波多野结衣s with using computers. Some were unfamiliar with computer hardware, but at the end of the training session, they all had designed and created physical 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 projects using electronic circuits and code. It was hugely inspiring to work with these teachers and see their enthusiasm and commitment to learning.

Through our two-year partnership with Kenya Connect, we aim to reach at least 1000 learners between the ages of 9 to 14 from 62 schools in Machakos county. We will work with at least 150 teachers to build their knowledge, skills, and confidence to teach coding, digital making, and robotics, and to run after-school Code Clubs. We’ll help teachers offer learning hezyo加勒比波多野结衣s based on our established learning paths to their students, and these hezyo加勒比波多野结衣s will include basic coding skills aligned to Kenya’s Competency Based hezyo加勒比波多野结衣 (CBC). We are putting particular focus on adapting our learning content so that teachers in Machakos can offer culturally relevant educational activities in their community. 

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– Patrick Munguti, Director of Education and Technology, Kenya Connect

Looking to the future

Next up for our work on this project is to continue supporting Kenya Connect to scale the program in the county.

In all our work in southern Africa, we are committed to strengthening and growing our partnerships with locally led youth and community organisations, the private sector, and the public sector, in line with our mission to open up more opportunities for young people to realise their full potential through the power of 彩客网竞彩足球完整版 and digital technologies.

Our work in southern Africa is generously funded by the Ezrah Charitable Trust.